noun
- a person who is annoying, boring, or persistently bothersome
Usage: informal; from Yiddish
Examples
- Don’t be such a nudnik and let me finish my work.
- The nudnik at the party kept telling the same unfunny jokes.
- She avoided him because he was a real nudnik who never stopped talking.
- My little brother can be a nudnik when he follows me around all day.
- The meeting dragged on because some nudnik kept asking irrelevant questions.
- Everyone groaned when the office nudnik started another long story.