noodge

But there is a fine line between a leader and a noodge.

In fact, recipients of this wisdom see her as a noodge.

He was a constant noodge, attacking perceived wrongs and demanding changes.

The number one noodge is the American Medical Association, which, in the first half of 1997, the most recent available reporting period, spent $8.6 million.

Lapine's first impression was of a force-10 noodge.

To hear him tell it, she was the quintessential noodge, he the quintessential obsessive.

You imagine that Mr. Kramer would be at least as effective, considering his reputation for being a noodge.

Time will tell, to use an old editorial dodge, whether Josh Rattner is a prophet or just a noodge.

The meaning of noodge is not merely "a critic" but "a habitual, pesky critic."

Plain and simple, he made a noodge of himself, to use a word that probably never passed Andrew Haswell Green's lips.

Therefore, I would spell the Yiddish word for "needling annoyer" noodge, not nudge.

Mr. Powers, 31, is a noodge and self-promoter, one of those deliberately annoying characters whom most of us could do without.

And Ms. Spiegel is a winningly eccentric noodge.

Mr. Pelka has been even more amazed by how David, a noodge in fifth grade, has grown up.

Mr. Feiner, who is married to a lawyer, Sherrie Brown, got his start as a political noodge.

The Yiddish noun noodge signifies a person, one who can sometimes prove useful but who is also not the sort you want around all the time.

They are not just any sandals, but boxy buckled Birkenstocks, the footwear that has become synonymous with a certain type of noodge.

Donna Isaacson calls it the "noodge" factor and attributes one of the casting coups of her career to it.

Ms. Jackson-Lee has become Congress's resident noodge, an endlessly loquacious presence here, there and everywhere.

Before this season, Mrs. Grubin went into high noodge: "It's time to do something else on Sundays," she insisted.

The Yiddish noun is only a noun; when the action of a verb is wanted, the phrase is to give a noodge.

Max Bialystock is many things - a stinking liar, a crook, a shameless noodge, a stud muffin for the elderly and infirm.

Robert Reich, a onetime Clinton classmate, is the short, blunt, frumpy, feisty George Costanza noodge of the group.

The Legislature's main noodge on the fiscal prudence front, Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance, has a different accounting.

One who nudges in that manner - to alert, remind, or mildly warn another" - is a far geshrei from a noodge with his incessant, bothersome whining.

The verb's e-mail meaning lies halfway between "to buzz" and "to noodge."

We just noodge them to death."

Sometimes noodge a little more.

As my Uncle Marvin says, 'Why would any God want people to noodge him that much?"'