Nebbishy

Origin

nebbish + -y

Full definition of nebbishy

Adjective

1. Resembling or characteristic of a nebbish
• 1988, August 26, Lawrence Bommer, The Book of Blanche, 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.
• 2011, Peter L. Bergen, The Longest War, 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.

Synonyms

• nebbishlike