nebbish

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
In the Tim Burton remake, the veracity of the Horseman's existence is never in question, and Ichabod is played more as a nebbish techie than a Yankee Doodle-ish ladies man with a formidable Achilles heel.

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Alexander was calm and jovial in an appearance with some of the high school writers and One Voice officials Wednesday - a far cry from the alternately nebbish and erupting George Costanza he played for nine seasons on Seinfeld. —  Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
  • Alexander was calm and jovial in an appearance with some of the high school writers and One Voice officials Wednesday -- a far cry from the alternately nebbish and erupting George Costanza he played for nine seasons on Seinfeld. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • Alexander was calm and jovial in an appearance with some of the high school writers and One Voice officials Wednesday _ a far cry from the alternately nebbish and erupting George Costanza he played for nine seasons on "Seinfeld." —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Alexander was calm and jovial in an appearance with some of the high school writers and One Voice officials Wednesday - a far cry from the alternately nebbish and erupting George Costanza he played for nine seasons on "Seinfeld."
  • In "The Shape of Things," a woman remakes a nebbish of a man to her own particular specifications. —  JAM! Showbiz
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 87 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

gymkhana ·  snatcher ·  lawman ·  telex ·  fandango
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Yiddish nebekh, poor, unfortunate, of Slavic origin; see bhag- in Indo-European roots.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

wc · effervescent · paper · ebullient · Doubtfire

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten