Example sentences for: nebbish

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

  • 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?


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