What does nebbishy mean?
Nebbishy means Resembling or characteristic of a nebbish..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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).
Use nebbishy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nebbishy means Resembling or characteristic of a nebbish..
Common synonyms include nebbishlike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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