Definitions

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  • noun slang A whiner, a noodge.
  • verb slang, transitive To pester, to noodge.
  • verb slang, intransitive To whine.

Etymologies

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From Yiddish נודזש (nudzh, "boring person").

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Examples

  • Other stuff to do this week: revise the damn Star Wars essay just now as I was typing this, I got a nudzh from the editor and writing that damn Dragon Precinct story.

    Monday, Monday fjm 2006

  • Steinmetz reports spellings of the Yiddish word that range from nudzh to noodge, but prefers nudge, which is how it appears in those up-to-date dictionaries that include it.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten spells the noun nudzh, pronounced in two syllables, NUD-jeh, to rhyme with “could ya.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Steinmetz reports spellings of the Yiddish word that range from nudzh to noodge, but prefers nudge, which is how it appears in those up-to-date dictionaries that include it.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten spells the noun nudzh, pronounced in two syllables, NUD-jeh, to rhyme with “could ya.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Steinmetz reports spellings of the Yiddish word that range from nudzh to noodge, but prefers nudge, which is how it appears in those up-to-date dictionaries that include it.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten spells the noun nudzh, pronounced in two syllables, NUD-jeh, to rhyme with “could ya.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Steinmetz reports spellings of the Yiddish word that range from nudzh to noodge, but prefers nudge, which is how it appears in those up-to-date dictionaries that include it.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten spells the noun nudzh, pronounced in two syllables, NUD-jeh, to rhyme with “could ya.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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