noodge

No committees, no contests, no contracts — just some noodge on the city payroll speaks up, and his buddies say, go for it!

Venom is rather a noodge, pestering Eddie in a echoey guttural inner voice about his many shortcomings.

Lucy Lang is a squeaky wheel, a meddler, a self-described noodge.

He likened Biden to the neighbor who does everything by the book: “In the beginning you think, ‘Gee, what a noodge.’

He was what you might call a critic-whisperer — sometimes a welcome interlocutor, sometimes what we who have Yiddish speakers in our ancestry would call a noodge.