NAMBY-PAMBY

n. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

2.
a.

Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford.


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