Noun: nebbech
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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De nebbech snapte er niets van en stelde alleen maar domme vragen. (The poor thing didn't understand anything and kept on asking stupid questions.)
Nouns inflected like nebbech
weerwraak,
spraakwater,
lekentaal,
sneeuw,
saflet,
schuim,
schijt,
witte fosfor,
flauwekul,
besturing,
skitta,
selderij,
atomisme,
walvisvaart,
dag des Heren,
addergebroed,
ontfriezing,
kosmopolitisme,
schapenvlees,
februari, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Yiddish נעבעך (nebekh, “poor, unfortunate”), from Czech nebohý (“poor, pitied”). Compare English nebbish. See: English Nouns '
nebbish'.
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