Words similar to nebbish
Example sentences for: nebbish
How can you use “nebbish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There will be no Revenge of the Nebbishes , no nebbish liberation.
Nebbish," Franklin Foer presents a few alternative explanations for the origin of the word "nerd."
It is no accident that the word nebbish originated in Yiddish, a language without a nation that is spoken by a people repeatedly beaten down by pogroms and thus in a good position to empathize with nebbishes.
The popular parlance conflates nerd with nebbish . But the overlap between the two concepts is not large, more on the order of this:
So, to pose the obvious question: Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish?