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"2": "yi",
"3": "נודניק"
},
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"name": "bor"
},
{
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},
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},
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},
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},
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"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "ну́дный",
"3": "",
"4": "tedious"
},
"expansion": "Russian ну́дный (núdnyj, “tedious”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "uk",
"2": "нудни́й",
"3": "",
"4": "tedious"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "nudny",
"3": "",
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},
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},
{
"args": {
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"2": "nudný",
"3": "",
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},
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},
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},
{
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"3": "",
"4": "nag"
},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
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{
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{
"ref": "1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, \"The Mountains of Pi\"",
"text": "He interrupts people, and he is not interested in anything except what concerns him and his brother. He is a nudnick!"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 15:",
"text": "Juliana greeted strangers with a portentous, nudnik, Mona Lisa smile that hung them up between responses, whether to say hello or not.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk."
],
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"links": [
[
"annoy",
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],
[
"pest",
"pest"
],
[
"nag",
"nag"
],
[
"jerk",
"jerk"
]
],
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"(US, colloquial, sometimes attributive) A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk."
],
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},
{
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},
{
"word": "nudge"
}
],
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"word": "noodnick"
},
{
"word": "noodnik"
},
{
"word": "nudnick"
}
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},
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}
],
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}
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},
{
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"name": "cog"
},
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"3": "",
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},
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},
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},
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"2": "ноудити"
},
"expansion": "Old Church Slavonic ноудити (nuditi)",
"name": "cog"
},
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"args": {
"1": "he",
"2": "נוּדְנִיק",
"3": "",
"4": "nag"
},
"expansion": "Hebrew נוּדְנִיק (“nag”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"word": "nudzh"
},
{
"word": "noodge"
},
{
"word": "nudge"
}
],
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"English colloquialisms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
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"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-Slavic",
"English terms derived from Yiddish",
"English terms suffixed with -nik",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ʊdnɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ʊdnɪk/2 syllables",
"en:People"
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{
"ref": "1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, \"The Mountains of Pi\"",
"text": "He interrupts people, and he is not interested in anything except what concerns him and his brother. He is a nudnick!"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 15:",
"text": "Juliana greeted strangers with a portentous, nudnik, Mona Lisa smile that hung them up between responses, whether to say hello or not.",
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"A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk."
],
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[
"annoy",
"annoy"
],
[
"pest",
"pest"
],
[
"nag",
"nag"
],
[
"jerk",
"jerk"
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"(US, colloquial, sometimes attributive) A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk."
],
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"US",
"attributive",
"colloquial",
"sometimes"
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"word": "noodnick"
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"word": "noodnik"
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}
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