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But it would not be inaccurate to describe a woman as a nebbish or as nebbishy.
He spoke in an engaging nebbishy Bronx-Jewish accent that was always a shock to hear--like the voice of the unmasked Wizard of Oz, it didn't belong.
My daughter and I were watching The Wizard of Oz over the holidays (which I'm sure Team Carlson wasn't, since it was on TV), and it occurred to me that there's a bit of Oz in Safire: He seems all-powerful and scary, someone you have to bow before to curry favor, but when you pull the curtain back he's just a nebbishy guy who used to write speeches for Nixon.
German police in Hamburg arrested Martin Frankel, the "nebbishy" ( WP ) financier accused of stealing about $350 million from at least half a dozen insurance companies.