Talk:-nik

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  • All-rightnik <-- 80 google hits
  • Neatnik <-- 8,000 google hits
  • Nogoodnik <-- 4,700 google hits
  • Peacenik <-- 102,000 google hits
  • computernik <-- 1,500 hits
  • real-estatenik
  • Protestnik
  • Draftnik
  • Vietnik
  • Folknik
  • Nudnik (noodnik)
  • straightnik
  • Freudnik
  • Meetnik

Any more -niks? I'd suggest to ignore those coinages that have less than, say, 10 unique google hits.

mikka (t) 21:33, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "person related to the thing"

Yeah, brilliant description. It's called an agent noun.Kyle McInnes (talk) 21:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

OK smartnik, you nailed me here. Thank you for improving the article. `'mikka (t) 00:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hebrew, Yiddish and Yinglish

This article needed new categories beyond the existing Mainstream, Casual, and East Slavic languages, so I added Hebrew, Yiddish and Yinglish and moved into it these words: Alrightnik, Ka-tzetnik, kibbutznik, Likudnik, Moshavnik, No-goodnik. Perhaps ideally Hebrew words should be separated from Yiddish and Yinglish.

Alrightnik was misspelled and misdefined as a relentless optimist and I corrected it. Anomalocaris 01:38, 17 September 2006 (UTC)