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Word: Nogoodnik
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1930s; earliest use found in S. J. Perelman (b. 1904), humorist. From no good + -nik, perhaps ultimately after Russian negodnik a good-for-nothing
Definition:
A good-for-nothing; a villain, a petty criminal.
Variant Forms:
- nogoodnick
- nogudnik
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