'Nebbish' definitions:
Definition of 'nebbish'
(from WordNet)
noun
(Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton [syn: nebbish, nebbech]
Definition of 'Nebbish'
From: GCIDE
- Nebbish \Neb"bish\ (m[e^]b"[i^]sh) n. [Yiddish, nebekh poor, unfortunate.] A person who is ineffectual, timid, and often luckless; a person of no significance. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'nebbish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Milquetoast,
- 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