Nudnik
/ˈnʊd.nɪk/noun
A boring, nagging, or annoying person.
Did you know?Nudnik comes from Yiddish נודניק (nudnik), built on a Slavic root meaning “to bore/pester,” and it spread into English through Jewish-American speech before becoming a classic comic insult.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Slavic
PSl
*nuditi
“to bore, pester, urge, compel”
Yiddish
Yid
נודניק (nudnik)
“a pest, a nagging or boring person”
20th Century
English
nudnik
“an annoying, tiresome person”
Modern English
English
nudnik
“a boring or persistently annoying person”