nebbish
n.
(Slang) pathetic person, pitiful person (Yiddish)
List of English words of Yiddish origin
nebbish
Noun
1. (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton
(synonym) nebbech
(hypernym) simpleton, simple
(classification) Yiddish
nebbish
Synonyms and related words:
Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, baby, big baby, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, figurehead, gutless wonder, hollow man, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nobody, nobody one knows, nonentity, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pansy, pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, sad sack, scrub, shrimp, sissy, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, thing of naught, trifle, weak sister, weakling, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
NEBBISH
SCIALBO. TIMIDO. PERSONA SCIALBA\TIMIDA