noodge

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 • Oct. 5, 2021

Venom is rather a noodge, pestering Eddie in a echoey guttural inner voice about his many shortcomings.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

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 • Feb. 12, 2020

And then the boss said: “Guys, I hate to be a noodge, but could we get back to abbreviating the states? We still have 49 left.”

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2019

But he’s being something of a noodge about “Under the Dome.”

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2013