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a suffix derived from Yiddish and Russian and added to words to denote a person or thing associated with that word, has made some headway since it was given an initial boost by the Russian sputniks in the 1950s. First there was beatnik (1958, still the most celebrated and substantial of these words), then no-good-nik (1960), protestnik (1965) and peacenik (1965), both arising from opposition to the war in Vietnam, computernik (1966), and refusenik (1975, = a Jew refused permission to leave the Soviet Union). Apart from beatnik, they all have an ad hoc flavour about them.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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