noodge

noodge

1. noun Someone who is constantly or persistently pestering, badgering, or irritating someone, especially with complaints or criticisms. God, you've been such a noodge lately. You need to lighten up! He turned into a real noodge as we got closer to the deadline.
2. verb To complain or criticize in a constant, irritating manner. Instead of just noodging the whole time, why no actually try to help us get this done? If you're going to noodge the whole drive, I'll just turn this car around and take all of us home.
3. verb To pester, badger, or irritate someone constantly or persistently, especially with complaints or criticisms. I wish you would stop noodging me about the project—I already told you I had everything under control! I wish she wouldn't noodge me like that. I'll do the dishes in due time!

nudge

1. noun Someone who is constantly or persistently pestering, badgering, or irritating someone, especially with complaints or criticisms. God, you've been such a nudge lately. You need to lighten up! He turned into a real nudge as we got closer to the deadline.
2. verb To complain or criticize in a constant, irritating manner. Instead of just nudging the whole time, why no actually try to help us get this done? If you're going to nudge the whole drive, I'll just turn this car around and take all of us home.
3. verb To pester, badger, or irritate someone constantly or persistently, especially with complaints or criticisms. I wish you would stop nudging me about the project—I already told you I had everything under control! I wish she wouldn't nudge me like that. I'll do the dishes in due time!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nudge

and noodge (nʊdʒ)
1. n. someone who nags. Sally can be such a nudge!
2. in. to nag. Don’t noodge all the time.
3. tv. to nag someone. Stop nudging me about that.

noodge

verb
See nudge
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • bring (someone or something) before (someone or something)
  • (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
  • accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
  • accompany on a journey
  • bear off from (someone or something)
  • a stranger to (someone or something)
  • be out of (one's) league
  • be out of somebody's league
  • be in bad with (someone)
  • big spender
References in periodicals archive
My first noodge is to ask whether the emphasis is on the adjective-- libertarian paternalism--or on the noun--libertarian paternalism.
Some noodging about nudging: four questions about libertarian paternalism
But there are a few characters in the stories that Yale tells (and if you noodge him enough, retells) who never emerge entirely unscathed.
Yale
(Safire has also taken glee in pointing out the difference between nudge and the Yiddish noodge, or to "push" versus to "pester," but surely one nudges people because one is a noodge.)
Diction slips
I'm going to Washington to become a permanent noodge."
Fighting the Power in RI : GRASSROOTS ACTIVIST KATE COYNE-MCCOY IS CHALLENGING THE DEMOCRATIC MACHINE
The Singaporean "Ng" family, for example, is subject to a variety of pronunciations, ranging from "gong" to the Yiddish-inspired "noodge." Number One confidently presented "Ing."
Pomp and circumstances
Though oysgegrinte did not survive, such is not the case for shlemiel, shlemazl, yente, klutz, shmendrik, krechtser, kibitzer, kvetsh, noodge, nudnik, shleper, nokhshleper, khokhm, knaker, and gantser knaker, just to name a few human types whose Yiddish name tags are not unfamiliar to us.
From Yiddish to English: the humor of it all