Definitions
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- noun (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
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Examples
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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.
Angela Himsel: Nosh, Davin, Kvell, or Eat, Pray, Love, the Upper West Side Way 2010
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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 2009
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In the Hollywood version, ... the remake has a rabbi kicking a nudnick.
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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.
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My nudnick granddaughter tacked on, “Also, ObÄsan, Dustin Pedroia didn†™ t deserve to have his number retired.
Empyreal Environs 2008
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Poodle Head says: they know the drill. they are ‘catapaulting the propaganda’ like good little nudnicks. what’s a nudnick?
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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.
Toronto 2008: Bill Maher's 'Religulous' (plus two terrific docs) | EW.com 2008
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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 2006
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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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