This week’s theme
“New” words

This week’s words
numero uno
noodgy
pneumatology
nuciform
nutant

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(NOO-jee)

MEANING:

adjective: Nagging, pestering, annoying, or complaining.

ETYMOLOGY:

From noodge (to pester; one who pesters), from Yiddish nudyen (to pester, bore), from Polish nudzic. A cousin of this word is nudnik (a boring pest). Earliest documented use: 1969.

USAGE:

“What we had most in common were noodgy, hard-driving parents, the type of people who’d push their children to attend supplemental schooling for a year and a half.”
Vinson Cunningham; Test Case; The New Yorker; Mar 9, 2020.

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