nebbishy

English

Etymology

nebbish +‎ -y

Adjective

nebbishy (comparative more nebbishy, superlative most nebbishy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a nebbish
   • 1988 August 26, Lawrence Bommer, “The Book of Blanche”, Chicago Reader:

     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 archetects 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