nebbishy
nebbishy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a nebbish.
Adjective
nebbishy (comparative more nebbishy, superlative most nebbishy)
- 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.1988 August 26, Lawrence Bommer, “The Book of Blanche”, in Chicago Reader
- 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.2011, Peter L. Bergen, The Longest War
- Synonyms:
- nebbishlike
Synonyms of nebbishy
Forms of nebbishy
| comparative | more nebbishy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most nebbishy |
Origin of nebbishy
From nebbish + -y.
Questions about nebbishy
- What does nebbishy mean?
- Nebbishy means resembling or characteristic of a nebbish.
- What part of speech is nebbishy?
- Nebbishy is an adjective.
Words near nebbishy in the dictionary
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