Nudnik Definition

nyo͝odnik
noun
A dull, tiresome, annoying person.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • nudnick

Other Word Forms of Nudnik

Noun

Singular:
nudnik
Plural:
nudniks

Origin of Nudnik

  • noodnik is attested since 1925, nudnik since 1929. From Yiddish נודניק (nudnik) < root of נודיען (nudyen, “to bore") + ניק (-nik, “noun-forming suffix"). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *nuda < Proto-Indo-European *neuti- (“need") < *nau- (“death, to be exhausted").

    From Wiktionary

  • Compare Russian нудный (núdnyj, “tedious"), Ukrainian нудний (núdnýj, “tedious"), Polish nudny (“boring"), Old Church Slavonic ноудити (nuditi) or нѫдити (nÇ«diti, “to compell"), Hebrew נודניק (“nag") and English -nik.

    From Wiktionary

  • Yiddish nudne boring (from nudyen to bore nudge2) -nik -nik

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

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Words Starting With

NNUNUD

Words Ending With

KIKNIK

Unscrambles

nudnik

Words Starting With N and Ending With K

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