noodge
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Example Sentences
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No committees, no contests, no contracts — just some noodge on the city payroll speaks up, and his buddies say, go for it!
From Los Angeles Times
Venom is rather a noodge, pestering Eddie in a echoey guttural inner voice about his many shortcomings.
From Seattle Times
Lucy Lang is a squeaky wheel, a meddler, a self-described noodge.
From New York Times
He likened Biden to the neighbor who does everything by the book: “In the beginning you think, ‘Gee, what a noodge.’
From Washington Post
He was what you might call a critic-whisperer — sometimes a welcome interlocutor, sometimes what we who have Yiddish speakers in our ancestry would call a noodge.
From Washington Post
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