-nik
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- One associated with or characterized by:
与…有联系的人或以…为特征的人：
beatnik; peacenik.
好斗者；爱好和平者
语源
- Yiddish
意第绪语 - Russian Yiddish from Russian
俄语 意第绪语 源自 俄语 - [of Slavic origin]
[源于斯拉夫语]
-nik
suffix forming nouns
denoting a person associated with a specified state, belief, or quality
⇒
beatnik
⇒
refusenik
Origin
C20: from Russian -nik, as in Sputnik, and influenced by Yiddish -nik (agent suffix)-nik
Word Origin
1
a suffix of nouns that refer, usually derogatorily, to persons who support or are concerned or associated with a particular political cause or group, cultural attitude, or the like:
beatnik, filmnik; no-goodnik; peacenik.
Origin
< Yiddish (cf. nudnik) < Slavic: a personal suffix in Slavic languages in contact with Yiddish
Related Words
- kibbutznik
- nudnik
- sputnik
- arsenic
- beatnik
- Chetnik
-nika combining form used to indicate a specified type of person, as in beatnik, refusenik.
[Russian -nik (personal suffix)]-nik
noun suffix
beatnik
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY Yiddish, from Polish & Ukrainian
: one connected with or characterized by beingbeatnik
-nik
suffix
- (forming nouns) denoting a person associated with a specified thing or quality［构成名词］表示“与…相关的人”：
-
beatnik
refusenik.
词源
from Russian （on the pattern of （sput） nik） and Yiddish.
1945 A. Kober Parm Me 17That stuck-upnick fomm the lodge, Sister Leshinsky..she's a regella Yenkee.
1958 Amer. Speech XXXIII. 154On learning that a dog was in the Soviet Moon, the Detroit News (and almost every other paper)..referred to the satellite as Muttnik... From then on there was no end of -niks.
1959 Observer 14 June 22/7 It happened that Mr. Werth arrived in Columbus, Ohio, just as the Russian Sputnik soared into the cosmos; before he left the American flopnik had burnt out on its launching pad.
1965 Newsweek 1 Nov. 31/3 The crowded headquarters of the young draftniks and Vietniks pulse with an almost religious fervor.
1965 Time 12 Nov. 4 Those guitar-plunking protestniks whose St. Joan is Baez.
1966 Economist 5 Mar. 883/1 These protestants represent only a small faction, no more important politically than the nuclear disarmers were in Britain or the Vietniks are in America.
1966 Sat. Rev. (U.S. ) 22 Oct. 59Despite the alarums of the computerniks..the book would appear to be here to stay.
1968 B. Foster ChangingEng. Lang. ii. 110This borrowing ..has given a new lease of life to the suffix -nik which had already made its appearance, at any rate in the [ sc. sputnik] U.S. A., as a loan from Yiddish... New creations..have usually been..humorous..; thus a device which failed to go into orbit was derided in..1957 as a Kaputnik (Daily Express), a Flopnik (Daily Herald), a Puffnik (Daily Mail), and a Stayputnik (News Chronicle).
1968 L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 265-Nik lends itself to delightful ad hoc inventions. A sicknik would be one who fancies ‘sick’ or ‘black’ humor. A Freudnik would be an uncritical acolyte of the father of psychoanalysis. And recently homosexuals began to refer to heterosexuals, with some amusement, as ‘straightniks’.
1973 Indexer VIII. 227/2 Publishers and computerniks can create decadent search systems.
-nik
as in beatnik, etc., suffix used in word formation from c.1945, from Yiddish -nik (as in nudnik "a bore"), from Russian -nik, common personal suffix meaning "person or thing associated with or involved in" (compare nudnik; kolkhoznik "member of a kolkhoz"). Rocketed to popularity with sputnik, q.v..
ORIGIN: from Russian (as sputnik Hebrew , and Yiddish .
-nik
suffix. Slang. a person who is greatly interested in or enthusiastic about something; devotee of a cult, concept, or fad:
Jazznik = a person who is enthusiastic about jazz. Guitar-plunking protestniks...(Time).
The peaceniks…had come to La Macaza…to commit nonviolent civil disobedience(Maclean’s).
[< Russian -nik (as in sputnik), a suffix meaning one that does, makes, or is connected with something; influenced by Yiddish -nik (as in nudnik) < Russian -nik]
-nik
\(ˌ)nik\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: Yiddish, from Polish & Ukrainian
: one connected with or characterized by being
< peacenik >
< neatnik >
< peacenik >
< neatnik >
-nik
Suffix
- Appended to words to create a nickname for a person who exemplifies, endorses, or is associated with the thing or quality specified (by the base form), often a particular ideology or preference.
Etymology
From the Slavic suffix (Russian: -ник (-nik)). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the first Sputnik satellite. English usage is heavily influenced by Yiddish usage of ־ניק (-nik) and similar borrowed words (nogoodnik, nudnik, kibbutznik).
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -nik
External links
1990 Autumn, Kabakchi, V. V.; Doyle, Charles Clay, “Of Sputniks, Beatniks, and Nogoodniks”, in American Speech[1], volume 65, number 3, JSTOR 455919, pages 275-278:
后缀：-nik [名词后缀]
表示...的人、...迷
protestinik 抗议者
citynik 城市人，迷恋城市者
peacenik 反战运动者
filmnik 电影迷
cinenik 电影迷
nudnik 无聊的人
no-goodnik 不怀好意者
boatnik 船户，水上人家
computernik 电脑人员
goodwillnik 捧场人
folknik 民歌爱好者
jazznik 爵士乐迷