nudnik

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Curb Your Enthusiasm, Boris is a cousin to insult comedian Don Rickles or former New York mayor Ed Koch-a smug, self-absorbed, argumentative nudnik.

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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm, Boris is a cousin to insult comedian Don Rickles or former New York mayor Ed Koch-a smug, self-absorbed, argumentative nudnik. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • The basic strategy, it seems, will be the same one that professional nudnik —  Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
  • Clooney plays dumb and Pitt plays dumber, but - popeyed and motor-mouthed, her every facial twitch seemingly prompted by an offscreen cattle prod - McDormand is triumphantly dumbest as a ridiculously self-assured nudnik obsessed with financing a complete surgical makeover. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
  • Clooney plays dumb and Pitt plays dumber, but - pop-eyed and motor-mouthed, her every facial twitch seemingly prompted by an off-screen cattle prod - McDormand is triumphantly dumbest as a ridiculously self-assured nudnik obsessed with financing a complete surgical makeover. —  Houston Press | Complete Issue
  • Clooney plays dumb and Pitt plays dumber, but-pop-eyed and motor-mouthed, her every facial twitch seemingly prompted by an off-screen cattle prod-McDormand is triumphantly dumbest as a ridiculously self-assured nudnik obsessed with financing a complete surgical makeover. —  Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
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  1. Yiddish, nudne, boring (from nudyen, to bore; see nudge2) + -nik, -nik.
 

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