Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch, and nudnik. Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a ` pest '; a phudnik is a ` nudnik with a Ph.D. '
Yiddish describes those poor ineffectual souls, and each has its own pathetic type: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch, and nudnik. Yiddish coins names for personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.'