What is "nudnick"

Usage examples of "nudnick".

Of the great heroes of the forties, only the stalwarts at NationalSuperman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and a few of their cohortssoldiered on with any regularity or commercial clout, and even they had been forced to suffer the indignity of seeing their wartime sales cut in half or more, of receiving second billing in titles where formerly they headlined, or of having forced upon them by increasingly desperate writers various attention-getting novelties and gimmicks, from fifteen different shades and flavors of Kryptonite to Bat-Hounds, Bat-Monkeys, and a magical-powered little elf-eared nudnick known as the Bat-Mite.

That's part of it certainly, which should not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen the nudnicks counting ballots on TV - holding punch cards to the light, interpreting smudge marks on the ballots, and consulting tarot cards to divine the voters' elusive intent.