What (who) is nudnik - definition
Nudnik
FILM
The Nudnik Show; Nudnik (cartoon); Nudnik (film series); Draft:Nudnik
Nudnik was a Czechoslovak/Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios. Twelve shorts were released during 1965 and 1967.
nudnik
FILM
The Nudnik Show; Nudnik (cartoon); Nudnik (film series); Draft:Nudnik
['n?dn?k]
(also nudnick)
¦ noun N. Amer. informal a pestering or irritating person.
Origin
1920s: Yiddish, from Russ. nudnyi 'tedious'.
nudnik
FILM
The Nudnik Show; Nudnik (cartoon); Nudnik (film series); Draft:Nudnik
Geek, freek, dweeb, a total jerk.
Did you see that nudenick trying to ski that double black diamond? He had a total yardsale!
Did you see that nudenick trying to ski that double black diamond? He had a total yardsale!
Examples of use of nudnik
1. "Be a nudnik, don‘t be embarrassed," were her exact words.
2. A particularly unfunny sketch squared accounts with "Gilad Tarhan (nudnik)" and his persecution of smokers.
3. Advertisement Israel may now seem like the world‘s nudnik, now that American intelligence has sounded the all clear.
4. No longer can Israel play the regional power that charts the map of global strategic threats; the state that mobilized the world against Iran will now assume the role of nudnik.
5. He allows himself to be bullied by his nudnik father (Tal Friedman), a West Bank settler who is more devoted to working all the angles and making a quick profit than anything else.