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A couple my parents knew years ago dubbed their unborn child Nudnik. After he was born, the nickname stuck -- I think until he was a teenager. 
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A definition from "yiddish For Yankees":
nudge (nooj) To bother. To make a nuisance of yourself. Your husband is enjoying himself with a good book. You NUDGE him about vacation plans for 2012, he shouldn't be too content.
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journeyman
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No-one's mentioned a phudnik yet: a nudnik with a Ph.D.
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Dear Jenet: I wish I had known "phudnik" forty years ago
when I had to work with some of them in VA psychiatric
wards.
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