Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) used to denote the involvement or association of a person or thing with the thing or quality described.

1929		S. Ornitz Haunch Paunch and Jowl 283: So here we live in Allrightniks Row, Riverside Drive [...] The Ghetto called anyone who was well off – one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed – an Allrightnik.
1935		A. Kober Thunder over the Bronx 36: That stuck-upnick!
1945		A. Kober Parm Me 17: That stuck-upnick from the lodge, Sister Leshinsky [...] she’s a regella Yenkee.
1952		(con. 1920s) ‘Harry Grey’ Hoods (1953) 176: Them moving picture holdupnick killer characters.
1958		Caravan Sept. 29: Invariably, folkniks (to quote Izzy) are present, for this den is the meeting place and home address for New York’s up and coming folksingers and hangers on.
1959		M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 229: Look who’s here [...] Montreal’s Cecil B. Demille-nik.
1962		Monthly Rev. Oct. 332: Further, there are cultural and social subdivisions: the jazz hippies, the folk-niks, and the pot-heads.
1965		L. Bruce How to Talk Dirty 99: I was labelled a ‘sicknik’ by Time magazine.
1965		T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 38: Elf boots, Russian hats, flipnik jerseys.
1970		Harper’s Mag. Aug. 45: What is the real offense of a long-haired peacenik who holds his fingers in a V as the hardhats come marching by?
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 280: Pop, I’m a gaynick.
1980		H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 187: Not a farthing. Not grubnik.
1983		N. Proffitt Gardens of Stone (1985) 174: I’m no peacenik, sir.
1989		W. Kotzwinkle Midnight Examiner (1990) 100: Whatta we do with these holdupniks now that we’ve got them?
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 273: The ending often has a derogatory connotation, as in nudnik, and is particularly useful for stigmatizing those who are going against society’s mainstream, e.g. [...] draftnik, no-goodnik, peacenik, refusenik.
1991		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper From The Inside 161: Before he became a peacenik he had killed in Vietnam.
1999		Guardian Rev. 9 Oct. 4: There was only ‘Ban the Bomb’ and that mix of beats and peaceniks.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 415: Desperately embarrassing hence cowardly avoidnik postcard.
2000		Indep. 27 Jan. 5: The refuseniks have been staying in the Harris hotel.
2003		G. Tate Midnight Lightning 1: Have you ever been [...] Panther or peacenik, hawk or dove?
2005		B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 79: He had a hard-earned reputation as a prominent and influential refusenik.
2012		E. Kurtz ‘In the Neighborhood’ in ThugLit Dec. [ebook] I never went to war with my bullshit peacenik vibe.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 132: I’m your recidivist refusenik [Ibid.] 191: It’s sicknik sexual liberation.