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Namby-pamby   /nˈæmbipˈæmbi/   Listen
Namby-pamby

noun
1.
An insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental.





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"Namby-pamby" Quotes from Famous Books



... was in all respects a model boy. Not the namby-pamby model that all human boys detest, but a right-minded, right-mannered, healthy, wealthy, and wise young Roman of the second century of the Christian era. At that time (for the world was not yet Christianized) there flourished ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks
... verse, would have hung half-a-dozen couplets, comparing them very agreeably to Cupid's bow, at the same time bidding us to observe that the dart was beneath; the said dart, however, was neither very potent nor very penetrating, for as yet it was controlled by the namby-pamby sweetness of a Mlle. de la Valliere as depicted on fire-screens, at the moment when she solemnizes her betrothal in the sight of heaven, any solemnization before the registrar being quite ...
— The Firm of Nucingen • Honore de Balzac


Words linked to "Namby-pamby" :   weakling, wuss, spineless, weak, doormat


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