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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.
Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars.
There will be no Revenge of the Nebbishes , no nebbish liberation.
But it would not be inaccurate to describe a woman as a nebbish or as nebbishy.
Nebbish," Franklin Foer presents a few alternative explanations for the origin of the word "nerd."