nudnikとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Yiddish נודניק (nudnik), from the root of נודיען (nudyen, “to bore”) + ־ניק (-nik, noun-forming suffix) (English -nik), both of Slavic origin. The root derives from Proto-Slavic *nùditi (“to compel”) and the noun *nùďa (“need, necessity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *new- or *neh₂w- (“to lack, need; to perish”). (Can this etymology be sourced?) The suffix is from Proto-Slavic *-ьnikъ (forming agent nouns and objects).

Compare Russian ну́дный (núdnyj, “tedious”), Ukrainian нудни́й (nudnýj, “tedious”), Polish nudny (“boring”), Slovak nudný (“boring”), Old Church Slavonic ноудити (nuditi) or нѫдити (nǫditi, “to compel”), Hebrew נוּדְנִיק (“nag”). See also English need, and compare needy for the semantics.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈnʊdnɪk/
  • 韻: -ʊdnɪk
• IPA: /ˈnʌdnɪk/
  • 韻: -ʌdnɪk

名詞

nudnik (plural nudniks)

1. (US, colloquial, sometimes attributive) A person who is very annoying; a pest, a nag, a jerk. [from 20th c.]
   • 1992, Richard Preston quoting Samuel Eilenberg, The New Yorker, 2 March, "The Mountains of Pi":

     He interrupts people, and he is not interested in anything except what concerns him and his brother. He is a nudnick!

   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 15:

     Juliana greeted strangers with a portentous, nudnik, Mona Lisa smile that hung them up between responses, whether to say hello or not.

派生語

関連する語

• nudzh, noodge, nudge

アナグラム

• Dunkin, unkind