单词	nebbish
释义	nebbish /ˈnɛbɪʃ / noun informal, chiefly North American A person, especially a man, who is regarded as pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissive: He’s a nebbish. No money, no prestige, no future [as modifier]: his nebbish sensibility... In the original, the men were cold and sinister; in the new version, they're nebbishes who need to be constantly drilled in masculine prerogatives by the head of the Men's Association. There's nothing special about us… just a coupla nebbishes… Meanwhile, in the ‘comedy,’ Melinda is the downstairs neighbor of an ambitious film director, Susan, and her nebbish husband, Hobie. Derivatives nebbishy adjective ... He's nebbishy, quietly romantic, and - as many of his songs suggest - dreaming of road trip getaways. He's a short, nebbishy guy with a neat goatee and horn-rimmed glasses. A nebbishy architect is inexplicably charged with designing the suicide barrier on the Bloor Viaduct. Origin Late 19th century: from Yiddish nebekh 'poor thing'.
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