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nebbish - it's yiddish - not rubbish..
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2003/10/20.html

- I don't think Miss K is really a nebbish.. she's only joking..

as in - I used to be indecisive.. but now I, er.. um..

You used to be a nebbish, a noodle, a fool
And now you're Mr. Big Time with your own private pool.
-- Maira Kalman, Max in Hollywood, Baby

He is a nebbish who might be played effectively by Woody Allen. He attracts the sympathy of lower-echelon mammals but finds it difficult to relate to dogs and human beings.
-- Evan Hunter, "American Mayhem, Soviet Intrigue", New York Times, October 9, 1983