Nebbish

Word NEBBISH
Character 7
Hyphenation neb bish
Pronunciations /ˈnɛ.bɪʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Nebbish"

What do we mean by nebbish?

A person regarded as weak-willed or timid. noun

A person who is ineffectual, timid, and often luckless; a person of no significance. noun

One who is fearful and timid, especially in making decisions and plans, in discussions, debates, arguments, and confrontations, and in taking responsibility. noun

A loser. noun

(Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton noun

One who is fearful and timid, especially in making decisions and plans, in discussions, debates, arguments, and confrontations, and in taking responsibility.

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The word "nebbish" in example sentences

The character was described as the nebbish, not so great with the women, really kind of insecure, starting over. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The name-checking of Woody Allen on the cover of the first issue recalls the nebbish director's maxim that he would never want to join any club that would have him for a member. ❋ Unknown (2006)

(And the nebbish is the one who has to clean it up.) ❋ Unknown (1984)

Cusack is a very different kind of nebbish, and he avoids the pitfalls of too many actors who think that being in a Woody Allen movie means you have to fully inhabit the Woody persona. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

I love the word 'nebbish' and celebrate every time it is used. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

So like some kind of nebbish-y Nero he decrees, "All this pastrami is going straight to my thighs ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Geraghty as Davy makes you physically uncomfortable as he moves between pathetic, nebbish dork and sympathetic, sweetly love struck man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the excellent book, Woody Allen on Woody Allen, the famously nebbish auteur discusses his moody, Brechtian comedy Shadows and Fog, which takes place over the course of a single night in a vaguely European village. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among the other numerous (at least one per page) lovable wisenheimer remarks is this definition: A nebbish doesn't know he's a nebbish ... ❋ David Finkle (2010)

Judges-wise, I'm seeing Cowell himself, Graham Taylor in the nebbish Louis Walsh role, Eileen Drewery as the mature lady, and one of the Saturdays as the glamma. ❋ Unknown (2012)

In flying other airlines as a nebbish I found the their treatment of me was not really different than I had as an American card-holder. ❋ Unknown (2009)

First is a brutally bullied nebbish who seeks revenge on the classmates who abused and humiliated him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"So do you," she says, her black eyes scanning my nebbish outfit. ❋ Barbara Rose Brooker (2011)

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