Etymology

nudzh

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Today it means: A whiner; a complainer. Full definition →

Yiddish נודזש ← Polish nudzić
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The story

  1. Polish · derived fromnudzić“to bore”
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromנודזש“an annoying, bothersome person”
  3. English todaynudzh

From Yiddish נודזש (nudzh, “an annoying, bothersome person”), from Polish nudzić (“to bore”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.