-nik Definition

nik
suffix
One associated with or characterized by.
Beatnik; peacenik.
American Heritage

Appended to words to create a nickname for a person who exemplifies, endorses, or is associated with the thing or quality specified (by the base form), often a particular ideology or preference.

Wiktionary
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One who is or has to do with (the thing specified)
Beatnik, refusenik.
Webster's New World

Origin of -nik

  • From the Slavic suffix (Russian: -ник (-nik)). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the first Sputnik satellite. English usage is heavily influenced by Yiddish usage of -nik and similar borrowed words (nogoodnik, nudnik, kibbutznik).

    From Wiktionary

  • Yiddish Russian (Yiddish) (from Russian) of Slavic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

-nik Sentence Examples

  • Among the newer writers on common and commercial law may be mentioned Wenczal, Zlinsky, ZsgOd, Gustave Schwarz, Alexander Plosz, Francis Nagy and Neumann; on constitutional law, Korbuly, Boncz, Stephen Kiss, Ernest Nagy, Kmety, Arthur Balogh, Ferdinandy, Bela Grunwald, Julius Andrassy and Emeric Ha j nik; on administration, George Fesiis, Kmety and Csiky; on finance, Mariska, Exner and Laszlo.

  • Nik and Mrs fiend remain a nefarious nucleus, able to attract the finest in contributing satellites for their ravishing reverberations.

  • His somewhat tongue-in-cheek immoral displays earn the full approval of the young Nik Cohn, who writes the book at an exhausting intensity.

  • The rat was doing a solo shrieking & squeaking into Nik 's microphone, along with spacey guitar & lotsa bleeps from me.

  • Wouldn't It Be Good is a remake of the 1984 hit by Nik Kershaw.

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Words Starting With

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Words Starting With - and Ending With K

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With N3 Letter Words Ending With K