nebbishy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8

Definition of nebbishy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a nebbish.
    “Jeff Johnson's nebbishy Blanche, for example, is a complete comic character, a demented Dorothy (a la Martin Short) who can write her way back to Kansas.”
    “As we have seen, one of the intellectual architects of that war was Sayyid Qutb, a nebbishy Egyptian writer with a Hitler mustache who arrived in the placid town of Greeley, Colorado, in 1949 to attend college.”
    “Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).”

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Etymology

From nebbish + -y.

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