3325英語網 單詞
nebbish的意思
nebbish
英 ['neb??]
美 ['n?b??]
- n. 無用的人；不受重視的人
中文詞源
nebbish 膽小鬼
來自希伯來依地語nebekh,可憐的家伙，來自ne-,沒有，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).