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- naches / nachas (נחת) – pleasure, satisfaction, delight; proud enjoyment (usage: I have naches from you) (from Hebrew נחת pronounced 'nachat')
- narishkeit – foolishness (German "närrisch" – foolish)
- nasherai – snack food (German naschen – to snack, cf. German "Nascherei")
- nebbish – a hapless, unfortunate person, much to be pitied; the one who cleans up after the schlemiel's accidents (from Yiddish nebekh)
- nosh – snack (from Yiddish נאַשן nashn)Also a verb "Nu, stop noshing on that nosh."
- nu – multipurpose interjection often analogous to "well?" or "so?"; of the same linguistic origin as English now (Russian "ну")
- nudnik (נודניק) – pest, "pain in the neck", originally from Polish ("nuda" in Polish means "boredom"; nudziarz is the Polish word for the Yiddish nudnik)
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