單詞
nebbish
英 ['neb??]
美['n?b??]
基本信息
- n. 無(wú)用的人；不受重視的人
中文詞源
nebbish 膽小鬼
來(lái)自希伯來(lái)依地語(yǔ)nebekh,可憐的家伙，來(lái)自ne-,沒(méi)有，bekh,份額，引申詞義窮鬼，膽小鬼。
英文詞源
- nebbish (n.)
- 1905, nebbich, from Yiddish (used as a Yiddish word in American English from 1890s), from a Slavic source akin to Czech neboh "poor, unfortunate," literally "un-endowed," from Proto-Slavic *ne-bogu-, with negative prefix (see un- (1)) + PIE *bhag- "to share out, apportion" (see -phagous).
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