Meaning of nebbishy | Babel Free

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Resembling or characteristic of a nebbish.

Examples

“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).”

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