Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A ne'er-do-well; an individual who is no good.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. slang A worthless, disreputable, or malicious person.
Etymologies
- From no good + -nik. Likely influenced by, evolved from, or borrowed directly into Yiddish from the Russian негодник (nye-GOD-nik) (“worthless person, reprobate, ne'er-do-well”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And: 4. Rest assured that anyone who tells you that you need any of the following things on your website is a nogoodnik and/or simply wrong.”
The Huffington Post: New Site 'Never Said About Restaurant Websites' Hilarious, Helpful
“And where was my tape with that heavyweight whose name I am still afraid to mention, given that my meeting with him was part of an investigative mission to get the goods on a nogoodnik agent in the boxing business?”
“If I was a nogoodnik I could abuse their credit card.”
Help, I'm Getting Someone Else's Newegg Emails! - The Consumerist
“So, straight man space hero, charismatic nogoodnik, and your smart, brave, space princess vs the diabolical H'Harn invasion.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Eric John Stark Saga - Leigh Brackett
“Some cleaning up of some nogoodnik murderous types for Tate and Trigger.”
Superhero Prose Fiction: Hub - Trigger and Friends 1 Harvest Time
“Basically meaning he was one of a band of nogoodnik more-than-human raiders.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol - Edmond Hamilton
“How dare Rienhardt and his liberal 9th Circuit cronies clearly violate established precedent with their nogoodnik activist judging!”
“A Macedonian warrior apparently ran afoul of the usual nogoodnik Greek godlings.”
“Yes, of course there is a feud, and a nogoodnik at the heart of wanting to lessen the human population of the mountains considerably for their own ends.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Squeaking Goblin - Kenneth Robeson
“Nope, Supergran gets her powers the good old fashioned accidental way, and sets up to protect the town from the odd dastardly nogoodnik.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nogoodnik’.
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WF - niks
The rare occurrences of the suffix "-nik"
refusenik, peacenik, beatnik, draftnik, kibbutznik, nogoodnik, neatnik, nudnik, ispravnik, nachalnik, computernik, folknik and 12 more...
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-nik
one who is
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thou varlet!
insults that roll trippingly off the tongue
varlet, addlepated, knucklehead, schmuck, ignoramus, bedlamite, nincompoop, nitwit, knave, bungler, blockhead, galoot and 91 more...
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Good words
Words I like.
unacceptable, sprezzatura, milquetoast, antinomianism, gossamer, filigree, louche, crepuscular, whorish, blogorrhea, cruciverbalist, eleemosynary and 68 more...
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michaelnewman's Words
shenanigans, affordances, machinima, bedraggled, fancy-pants, meme, felliniesque, planimetric, macerate, whip pan, videoblog, deposition and 56 more...
Tweets
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bilby "'Meyer Black, eh.' Price chuckled again. 'Yeah. I know him. I've done a bit of business with him myself. He's a nogoodnik. He's a smuggler. Among other things.'"
- Robert Barrett, 'White Shoes, White Lines and Blackie'. Aug 30, 2008