nudnik

ˈnʊdnɪk

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#1·11h ago

(US, colloquial, sometimes, attributive) A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk.

1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-of-pi "The Mountains of Pi"]:

Origin: From , from the root of to bore + ־ניק (), both of origin. The root derives from and the noun need, necessity, ultimately from or to lack, need; to perish. The suffix is from . Compare , , , , or to compel, . See also , and compare needy for the semantics. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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