namby-pamby : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: namby-pamby	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
namby-pamby adj weak in willpower, courage or vitality [syn: {namby- pamby}, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy] n an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Namby-pamby \Nam"by-pam`by\, n. [From Ambrose Phillips, in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Namby-pamby \Nam"by-pam`by\, a. Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. --Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. --W. Gifford.