Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An obtuse, boring, or bothersome person; a pest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a pestiferous boring and dull person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is very
annoying ; apersistent nag . - noun A
bore ; a boring person. - noun A
pest of a person; ajerk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a ` pest '; a phudnik is a ` nudnik with a Ph. D.'
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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.
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Would Twain's humor and stylistic charm shine as brightly without words like Nerf and nudnik?
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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:
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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.
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rolig commented on the word nudnik
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".
March 31, 2008
CaMahjonggMom commented on the word nudnik
My German Grandmother called me this, but she said it meant knucklehead.
June 16, 2015