variants also nudnick
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as in bore
someone or something boring nobody wants to hang around with that nudnik—all he wants to do is talk shop

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Recent Examples of nudnik The Word Mavens, are the authors of a new book, The Whole Spiel: Funny essays about digital nudniks, seder selfies and chicken soup memories. Connect with them at www.thewordmavens.com. Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nudnik
Noun
  • Finally, Paddington graduates from nuisance to pathfinder, from struggling to fit in to forging his own identity.
    Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • What is known is that the area of the attack had been frequently monitored by animal control authorities as a problematic zone where one or more dogs have been reported as being a nuisance or possible danger to the public, dating back to February 2023.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The man in the chef’s hat bore Meatball, a loud Italian American meatball who calmed hospital patients and veterans through a nest of spaghetti.
    Peter Rubin, Longreads, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Sequences of Elvira starving herself and obsessing over her weight bore the points down like a drill, though the screenplay could do more to explore the lead’s subjectivity and how her self-lacerating pursuit of beauty is becoming infectious to all around her.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Little annoyances and setbacks are practically an everyday fact of life.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Camille, Lisa and Irene all fawn over the chair while the saleswoman Sarah (Madison McKinley) looks on with annoyance.
    Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The only thing keeping this tan suit from being a yawn are the wide legs and pleating.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Melania Trump was seen stifling a yawn and shifting around to stay alert.
    Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • If nothing else, Sterns’s tease is a reminder that this latest phase of the MCU is still grasping for some purpose or cohesion.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Saros teases another time-looping, gun-toting, sci-fi action game.
    Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 13 Feb. 2025

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“Nudnik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nudnik. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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