Nebbish

What is Nebbish?


1.

Originally a Hebrew word, popularized in English by the cartoonist Herb Gardner. A `sad sack,' a loser, a person who can't make any thing or any situation work right for him or her; unassertive, shy, timid. Reference: `The Joys of Yiddish,' by Leo Rosten. His definition is "An innocuous, ineffectual, weak, helpless or hapless unfortunate." There are other spellings also.

The poor little fourth-grader was such a nebbish that she peed in her pants, rather than speaking up and asking the teacher for a hall pass to go to the bathroom.


67

Random Words:

1. What Smeagol calls the One Ring of Power. He thinks it belongs to him. In fact everyone who ever aquires it becomes madly posessive of i..
1. Shortened version of the words 'fuck' and 'it', used when the words are spoken in rapid succession. The speaker is e..
1. 1. The act of a male engaging a female in a conversation in an attempt to "spit his game" or "hit on" the female. Th..