🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

harceleur

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ar-se-leur

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Nudzh/nʊdʒ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15000 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il peut être un vrai harceleur quand il insiste."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who persistently annoys or bothers others.

    "He can be such a nudzh when he keeps asking the same question over and over."
  2. 2

    An act of nagging or pestering someone.

    "Her constant nudzh about the project deadlines was starting to wear on everyone's nerves."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'nudzh' is derived from the Yiddish word 'nudz', which means to pester or to nag. It reflects the influence of Eastern European Jewish culture on American English, particularly in the 20th century, where it evolved to describe someone who persistently annoys or bothers others.

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