Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang An obtuse, boring, or bothersome person; a pest.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who is very annoying; a persistent nag.
- n. A bore; a boring person.
- n. A pest of a person; a jerk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a pestiferous boring and dull person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
Etymologies
- Yiddish, nudne, boring (from nudyen, to bore; see nudge2) + -nik, -nik.
Examples
“Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a ` pest '; a phudnik is a ` nudnik with a Ph. D.”
“Economics in Reducing costs = recession: "Show Green me the money" Your Text here Your Text here Security Its all about PR: considerations Almost anything are conceived as can be sold a burden under any given ( "nudnik") Green tag Security Shahar Maor's work Copyright 2009 @STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic 11”
“Greg, with respect, you're becoming what in the vernacular is politely termed a "nudnik"; ~) - Trumpeldor has apologised for any offence given, and if, as I suspect, he's an Israeli, then the word you dislike would come naturally to him, with no derogatory intent, as Reb S. has suggested.”
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“The third-season opener wittily reunited Heaton with her Everybody Loves Raymond hubby Ray Romano, who guested in a flashback as Mike's nudnik ex-high-school classmate who nearly ruined his honeymoon with Heaton's Frankie.”
“Would Twain's humor and stylistic charm shine as brightly without words like Nerf and nudnik?”
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“March 8th, 2010 at 3: 44 pm vuntz schvatz nudnik thesaurus joe from Lowell says:”
“Can't we call her a schmutz, nudnik, noodge (this would be my preferred option), nebbish, ganef, or dybbuk?”
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“Then, alas, the crazy takes over, and Peggy "The Ophelia of the Right" comes into her nudnik own.”
“Would you like a UNRESTRAINED, no strings or scams devoted to nudnik of shiny Acai Berry?”
“Besides proving her spouse is innocent, she has two beloved but nudnik adults wanting to spend day time with her.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nudnik’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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In the "nik" of time
Well, once again I've been beaten to another list idea (see "-nik" by hap_e_wordnik). You might as well come on in and add kinnikinnick, Dubrovnik, or even minikin, if you like - I'll be out search...
sputnik, wordnik, Wordnik, beatnik, knacknik, refusenik, Nik da Grik, Arrondissement of..., chutzpanik, Dolni Dabnik, folknik, Kamnik and 10 more...
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Yiddish
tsuris, verklempt, haimish, bupkis, naches, nudnik, nebbish, bubbe meise
rolig As Wordnet notes, this word came into English via Yiddish, but it has Slavic roots (as the suffix -nik suggests). I suspect it comes from the Russian adjective нудный (nudnyj), which means "tiresome, annoying" and is related to the verb нудить (nudit'), which means "to force, oblige" (a nudnik being someone who forces himself on you). The Slavic root nud- actually refers to "need" (it's cognate with the English word, I suspect), and produces also the Russian word нужный (nužnyj), meaning "necessary", and the Slovene word nujen, also meaning "necessary", but with the added sense of "urgent". Mar 30, 2008