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Nudnik Kerry's President Nood Nik Noun Boring Pest Yiddish

Front nudnik \NOOD-nik\
Back noun
A boring pest.

[From Yiddish nudyen (to bore), from Polish nudzic + -nik (suffix denoting a person associated with a particular quality, group, etc.]

"John Kerry's freefall is so pronounced that even Dana Milbank, the Washington Post nudnik who specializes in needling President Bush on the most picayune details, has tossed Kerry overboard." - Russ Smith; Kerry's Last Stand; New York Press; Dec 9, 2003.

"Alfred E. Neuman, the magazine's red-haired, freckle-faced, dentally challenged mascot, is famous for saying, 'What, me worry?' Alfred, the nudnik who has campaigned for U.S. president since 1956, should be worried." - Tom Hawthorn; 'What, me advertise?': Mad Magazine Has a Legacy of Tweaking the Establishment; Vancouver Sun (Canada); Apr 17, 2001.

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