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a suffix of nouns that refer, usually derogatorily, to persons who support or are concerned or associated with a particular political cause or group, cultural attitude, or the like: beatnik, filmnik; no-goodnik; peacenik.
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Origin of -nik
<Yiddish (cf. nudnik) <Slavic: a personal suffix in Slavic languages in contact with Yiddish
Words nearby -nik
Niigata, Niihau, Nijinsky, Nijinsky, Vaslav, Nijmegen, -nik, Nikaria, nikau, Nike, Nike Hercules, Nikkei
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-nik
suffix forming nouns
denoting a person associated with a specified state, belief, or qualitybeatnik; refusenik
Word Origin for -nik
C20: from Russian -nik, as in Sputnik, and influenced by Yiddish -nik (agent suffix)
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