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Nudnik has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest

2

A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk. (Also used attributively.)

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
bore pest

Origin

Nudnik comes from Yiddish, where it originally meant "one who bores." The word is built from a root meaning "to bore" combined with a suffix that turns verbs into nouns.

Rhyming Words
nik banik zenik vanik sinik annik bitnik warnik cernik pernik gopnik resnik jannik vatnik sainik melnik badnik syunik siwnik reznik
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