nudnik
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈnʊdnɪk/
nudnik (plural nudniks)
- (US, colloquial) A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk. (Also used attributively.) [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!
- 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 15:
- Juliana greeted strangers with a portentous, nudnik, Mona Lisa smile that hung them up between responses, whether to say hello or not.
- 1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, "The Mountains of Pi" ↗:
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