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Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
Examples
“She doesn't have enough money for a thorough, neshama-searching journey that will take her through concentration camps or across the Mediterranean, and she has a terrible aversion to an entire weekend eating over-salted beef teriyaki that bears an uncanny resemblance to brisket, and speed dating with nudnick Shloimeys who have jobs doing something in computers and pride themselves on their shuckeling (swaying) during prayer.”
The Huffington Post: Angela Himsel: Nosh, Davin, Kvell, or Eat, Pray, Love, the Upper West Side Way
“And Henry Sellick turned down Fox because he couldn't imagine 3 years of this nudnick behavior after his experience with Anderson on Zissou.”
Wes Anderson Speaks About ‘Directing Via Email’ Controversy on Fantastic Mr Fox | /Film
“In the Hollywood version, ... the remake has a rabbi kicking a nudnick.”
“The least classy person there was the club's owner, Larry Levenson, a nudnick who presided over the nightly bacchanals and, by all accounts, helped to make them as friendly -- and about as glamorous -- as a bar mitzvah.”
“My nudnick granddaughter tacked on, “Also, ObÄsan, Dustin Pedroia didn†™ t deserve to have his number retired.”
“Poodle Head says: they know the drill. they are ‘catapaulting the propaganda’ like good little nudnicks. what’s a nudnick?”
“The least classy person there was the club’sowner, Larry Levenson, a nudnick who presided over the nightlybacchanals and, by all accounts, helped to make them as friendly–andabout as glamorous–as a bar mitzvah.”
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“An alleged Orthodox Jew, one who is a nudnick about the laws of n’giah, and his name is “Jason?””
First Orthodox Jew Elected to New Hampshire Legislature | Jewschool
“Now, please don "t mistake my optimistic outlook for that of a naive nudnick, resting in a cocoon-like world where nothing bad ever happens.”
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funny & derogatory
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A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
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favorite words
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Time Out New York
words looked up while copyediting for this magazine
tonsorial, nudnick, doyenne, lothario, ebon, compere, cloaca, carom, evince, jocosity, profligacy, favela and 110 more...
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Obnoxious Company
I feel like I have such a negative mind-set for doing lists like these, haha! But they are fun words to use in writing, anyway- especially when writing big-headed characters that like to insult peo...
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