noun
- people who are persistently annoying, boring, or bothersome
Usage: informal; Yiddish origin; plural of nudnik
Examples
- The meeting was full of nudniks who kept interrupting with pointless questions.
- Don’t invite those nudniks to the party again.
- She avoided the nudniks at work who always complained about everything.
- The teacher had to deal with several nudniks who disrupted the class daily.
- My neighbors are such nudniks, always bothering me about trivial matters.
- The conference attracted some brilliant speakers and unfortunately a few nudniks too.