Not lay a glove on someone
noun
A chronic nagger, kibitzer, or complainer: He’s not a writer, he’s a nudge/not as an assassin, but as a nudge and a nerd (1960s+) v: Usually he comes up to nudgy me while I’m writing/and oh nudjh, could he nudjh!
[fr Yiddish fr Slavic ”fret, dully ache”; perhaps influenced by English nudge]
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