Example sentences for: nebbish

How can you use “nebbish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The popular parlance conflates nerd with nebbish . But the overlap between the two concepts is not large, more on the order of this:

  • More easily, one can imagine nebbishes banding together to promote a nebbish agenda, kvetching that they are systematically discriminated against, demanding Nebbish Studies at universities, and complaining that history textbooks treat them as losers.

  • I don't know where the -sh sound arose in nebbish , but in all eastern European dialects of Yiddish the word is nebbikh or nebbakh , with a velar fricative sound that is rendered as -sh by speakers who find that easier to pronounce.

  • (And the nebbish is the one who has to clean it up.)


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