Word: fusspot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Sept. 3 issue on Israeli Scientist Zarchin defines nudnik as a "pedantic fusspot." There are many delicate shades of meaning in the word, and TIME'S definition may well fall within its subtle nuances, but I have always been brought up to think of and to use the word as meaning simply "a bore...
...Palestine in 1947, the pale little man patiently trotted from ministry to ministry, haunting anterooms and grabbing coat sleeves. Desperately he fired off letters to Premier Ben-Gurion that were answered by an evasive secretary. "No one knew me," recalls Zarchin He was referred to as a "nudnik" (pedantic fusspot). "There were lots of cranks in Israel, and everyone thought...
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