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#194215 11/23/2010 2:08 PM
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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.
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Wordsmith's "first use" dates for these Yiddish words are way off. I'm sure most of these words date back to at least the early 1900s.

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