Talk:-nik

• 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)Reply

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

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

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)Reply

I changed the "Jewish culture" section to "Jewish adaptation" because there isn't such a thing as "Jewish culture" and writing that is misleading. Sure, different Jewish communities have unique cultural practices but there is no homogeneous Jewish culture. Why do you keep reverting it back (who ever is doing it)?

I added Russian because Russian is a Slavic Language.Rusf (talk) 22:38, 8 July 2010 (UTC)Reply