noun
/'nebɪʃ/
Also nebbish, nebbishe, nebbisher, nebish
/'nebɪʃ/
Also nebbish, nebbishe, nebbisher, nebish
noun
1: A nobody, a nonentity. (1936 —) .
adjective
2: Innocuous, ineffectual, luckless, hapless, etc. (1941 —) .
Atlantic Monthly Paranoid psychopaths who, after nebbish lives, suddenly feel themselves invulnerable in the certain wooing of sweet death (1969
). [Yiddish.]