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(Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
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nudnik
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947, from Yiddish, with agential suffix -nik + Polish nuda "boredom" or Russian nudnyi "tedious, boring," from Old Church Slavonic *nauda- , from PIE *neuti- "need" from root *nau- "death, to be exhausted" (see need (n.)).
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Nudnik was a Czechoslovak / Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch , produced by William Lawrence Snyder , and distributed by Paramount Studios . The shorts were released during 1965 and 1967 with 12 shorts, and a new series was made in 1991. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nudnik \nud"nik\ (n[oo^]d"n[i^]k) n. [Yiddish, fr. Russ. nudnyi tiresome.] a pestiferous boring and dull person.