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-nik|nɪk|
suffix from Russian (cf. kolkhoznik, Narodnik, sputnik) and Yiddish, appended to ns. and adjs. to denote a person or thing involved in or associated with the thing or quality specified, as beatnik, folknik, no-goodnik, nudnik, peacenik. Often with humorous or pejorative connotations.
1945A. Kober Parm Me 17 That stuck-upnick fomm the lodge, Sister Leshinsky..she's a regella Yenkee. 1958Amer. Speech XXXIII. 154 On learning that a dog was in the Soviet Moon, the Detroit News (and almost every other paper)..referred to the satellite as Muttnik... From then on there was no end of -niks. 1959Observer 14 June 22/7 It happened that Mr. Werth arrived in Columbus, Ohio, just as the Russian Sputnik soared into the cosmos; before he left the American flopnik had burnt out on its launching pad. 1965Newsweek 1 Nov. 31/3 The crowded headquarters of the young draftniks and Vietniks pulse with an almost religious fervor. 1965Time 12 Nov. 4 Those guitar-plunking protestniks whose St. Joan is Baez. 1966Economist 5 Mar. 883/1 These protestants represent only a small faction, no more important politically than the nuclear disarmers were in Britain or the Vietniks are in America. 1966Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 22 Oct. 59 Despite the alarums of the computerniks..the book would appear to be here to stay. 1968B. Foster Changing Eng. Lang. ii. 110 This borrowing [sc. sputnik]..has given a new lease of life to the suffix -nik which had already made its appearance, at any rate in the U.S.A., as a loan from Yiddish... New creations..have usually been..humorous..; thus a device which failed to go into orbit was derided in..1957 as a Kaputnik (Daily Express), a Flopnik (Daily Herald), a Puffnik (Daily Mail), and a Stayputnik (News Chronicle). 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 265 -Nik lends itself to delightful ad hoc inventions. A sicknik would be one who fancies ‘sick’ or ‘black’ humor. A Freudnik would be an uncritical acolyte of the father of psychoanalysis. And recently homosexuals began to refer to heterosexuals, with some amusement, as ‘straightniks’. 1973Indexer VIII. 227/2 Publishers and computerniks can create decadent search systems. |