nudnik

== English == === Alternative forms === noodnick, noodnik, nudnick === Etymology === From Yiddish נודניק (nudnik) < root of נודיען (nudyen, “to bore”) + ־ניק (-nik, “noun-forming suffix”) (English -nik). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *nuda < Proto-Indo-European *newti- (“need”) < *new- (“death, to be exhausted”). Compare Russian ну́дный (núdnyj, “tedious”), Ukrainian нудни́й (nudnýj, “tedious”), Polish nudny (“boring”), Slovak nudný (“boring”), Old Church Slavonic ноудити (nuditi) or нѫдити (nǫditi, “to compel”), Hebrew נוּדְנִיק (“nag”). === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈnʊdnɪk/ Rhymes: -ʊdnɪk === Noun === nudnik (plural nudniks) (US, colloquial, sometimes attributive) A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk. [from 20th c.] 1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, "The Mountains of Pi": He interrupts people, and he is not interested in anything except what concerns him and his brother. He is a nudnick! ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== nudzh, noodge, nudge === Anagrams === Dunkin, unkind