Actor Rick Moranis often plays a nebbish.
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Nebbish
/ˈnɛ.bɪʃ/
Synonyms for "nebbish" (76 found)
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gutless wonderhollow maninsignificancyinvertebratejackstrawjellyfishlay figurelightweightlittle fellowlittle guyloserman in the streetman of strawmediocritymeek soulmilksopmilquetoastmollycoddlenamby pambynamby-pamby
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“I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”
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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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“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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