nebbish AmE informal

When the 600 rode valiantly into the Valley of Death in one strip, it was a Nebbish who stayed behind to reason why.

"Nebbish" is a Yiddish word meaning a hapless soul, and his bedraggled little figures always seemed a humorous - and endearing - step behind.

Mr. Abrams has always been considered a strong campaigner, but this time he's been portrayed as The Nebbish, boring and humorless.

In 1997, he also won the 1997 DIGF composition prize for his guitar piece 'Nebbish'

After the tour he wrote and acted in the situation comedy pilot The Secret Life of a Nebbish for TAPS.

All through it, when You consider that I spent four solid weeks softening up this foxy schoolteacher so that she would roll over and pant when Joe Nebbish came along.'

Marv Wolfman edited the first ten issues from 1973-1975 and the first "Super Special", and created the magazine's first mascot, Irving Nebbish, a short, bug-eyed man in a large black hat and draped in a black cape.