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101trouble — v 1. worry, alarm, upset, agitate, shake up, distress, concern; perturb, disturb, disquiet, discompose, discountenance, fluster, flutter, flurry, distract, unsettle, put out; confuse, bewilder, baffle, perplex, confound. 2. inconvenience, burden …
102-nik — cvb aff. a suffix of nouns that refer, often in a derogatory way, to persons who espouse a cause, represent a cultural attitude, or are ardent enthusiasts of a thing or phenomenon: beatnik; computernik; filmnik; peacenik[/ex] • Etymology: <… …
103nudge — I [[t]nʌdʒ[/t]] v. nudged, nudg•ing, n. 1) to push gently with the elbow, esp. to get someone s attention 2) to give a nudge 3) a gentle push with the elbow • Etymology: 1665–75; alter. of dial. (k)nidge, akin to OE cnucian, cnocian to knock… …
104nudnick — noun (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest • Syn: ↑nudnik • Topics: ↑Yiddish • Hypernyms: ↑bore, ↑dullard, ↑pest, ↑ …
105pesterer — noun a persistently annoying person • Syn: ↑pest, ↑blighter, ↑cuss, ↑gadfly • Derivationally related forms: ↑pester • Hypernyms: ↑tormentor, ↑to …
106noodge — I. ˈnu̇j transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: Yiddish nudyen to bore, from Polish nudzić; akin to Polish nuda boredom, OSlave nouditi to press hard, constrain, nužda need more at nudnick : pester : nag …
107nud|nick — nud|nik or nud|nick «NUD nihk», noun. Slang. a tiresome, annoying person; bore; pest; crank: »I have another nudnick here who wants a round table like King Arthur s (S. J. Perelman). ╂[< Yiddish nudnik < Russian nudnyi tedious + nik, a… …
108nud|nik — or nud|nick «NUD nihk», noun. Slang. a tiresome, annoying person; bore; pest; crank: »I have another nudnick here who wants a round table like King Arthur s (S. J. Perelman). ╂[< Yiddish nudnik < Russian nudnyi tedious + nik, a personal… …
109FEIFFER, JULES — (1929– ), U.S. cartoonist and writer. Born in the Bronx, New York, Feiffer studied at James Monroe High School and entered the Art Students League. From 1947 to 1951 he studied at the Pratt Institute while working as an assistant on the comic The …
110GERMANY — GERMANY, country in north central Europe. The Talmud and the Midrash use Germania (or Germamia ) as a designation for northern European countries, and also refer to the military prowess of these peoples and to the threat they posed to the Roman… …
