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nebbish

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Noun
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neb=bish

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun nebbish has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

nebbishn. [Yiddish, nebekh poor, unfortunate.].
     A person who is ineffectual, timid, and often luckless; a person of no significance.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nebbish, n. & adj. colloq.
--n. a submissive or timid person.
--adj. submissive; timid.

Etymology
Yiddish nebach poor thing!

THESAURUS

nebbish

Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, baby, big baby, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, figurehead, gutless wonder, hollow man, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nobody, nobody one knows, nonentity, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pansy, pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, sad sack, scrub, shrimp, sissy, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, thing of naught, trifle, weak sister, weakling, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero
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