"nebbish" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Yiddish נעביש (nebish)",
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  "etymology_text": "From American Yiddish נעביש (nebish), from נעבעך (nebekh, “poor, unfortunate”).",
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    {
      "form": "nebbishes",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "nebech",
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      "form": "nebesh",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "nebbish-like"
        },
        {
          "word": "nebbishy"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Actor Rick Moranis often plays a nebbish.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Foster Hirsh, quoting Woody Allen, Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen:",
          "text": "“I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 March 1, Steven Kurutz, quoting Lisa Schwarzbaum, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Manhattan’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "But as Lisa Schwarzbaum, the former movie critic for Entertainment Weekly, pointed out in an email interview, “‘Manhattan’ was always about a middle-aged man with a high school girlfriend. Back then, ‘Manhattan’ was made by Woody the Lovable Neurotic Nebbish, and now it has been made by Allen the Monster. And it’s the same movie.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "“Having a camera in my hands transformed a nebbish into someone who could make New York into a better place,” he said. “To help others do the same is important to us.”",
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        "One who is fearful and timid, especially in making decisions and plans, in discussions, debates, arguments, and confrontations, and in taking responsibility."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈnɛ.bɪʃ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛbɪʃ"
    }
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  "word": "nebbish"
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      "word": "nebbishy"
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  "etymology_text": "From American Yiddish נעביש (nebish), from נעבעך (nebekh, “poor, unfortunate”).",
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          "text": "“I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2018 March 1, Steven Kurutz, quoting Lisa Schwarzbaum, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Manhattan’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "But as Lisa Schwarzbaum, the former movie critic for Entertainment Weekly, pointed out in an email interview, “‘Manhattan’ was always about a middle-aged man with a high school girlfriend. Back then, ‘Manhattan’ was made by Woody the Lovable Neurotic Nebbish, and now it has been made by Allen the Monster. And it’s the same movie.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "“Having a camera in my hands transformed a nebbish into someone who could make New York into a better place,” he said. “To help others do the same is important to us.”",
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        }
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      "ipa": "/ˈnɛ.bɪʃ/"
    },
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    }
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  "word": "nebbish"
}