nebbish

English Thesaurus

1. (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton (noun.person)

hypernym	:	simple, simpleton,
definition	:	a person lacking intelligence or common sense (noun.person)

domain category	:	yiddish,
definition	:	a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script (noun.communication)