Best to use nudge or even nudzh :
No one says "noodge" to sound or look like it rhymes with "woodja ?"
Go here: http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/
& follow instructions for spelling.
You should arrive at:
nudge (American Jewish) a boring person; a pesty person, a badgering person nudzh noodzh (.) נודזש
The Yiddish spelling has 5 letters phonetically corespondent to n, u, d, z, sh.
Kol tuv (be well) as they say in the old country.
DW