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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:
(And the nebbish is the one who has to clean it up.)
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.
So, to pose the obvious question: Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish?