Nebby

"Nebby" is the Yiddish slang for "dorky". There is an entry before this under "nebbish" and the person wrote that it came from Hebrew. This is a common mistake, however, "nebby/nebbish" is proudly Yiddish.

I went to synagogue yesterday and all that was left over were the nebby 40-year-old guys.

by Avital August 27, 2006