Meaning & use
Nudnik
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An informal term for a person who persistently annoys, nags, or bores others; a pest.
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Stop being such a nudnik and let me finish my work.
The office nudnik interrupted every meeting with irrelevant questions.
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Borrowed from Yiddish, where it derives from a root meaning 'boredom' or 'tedium'.
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