namby-pamby

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Insipid and sentimental.
2. sıfat Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy.

   “[…] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]”

3. isim One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.

   “Namby Pamby’s doubly Mild, Once a Man, and twice a Child; To his Hanging-Sleeves restor’d Now he foots it like a Lord; Now he Pumps his little Wits; Sh—ing Writes and Writing Sh—s,^([sic])”

4. isim Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.

   “Another of Addison’s favourite companions was Ambrose Phillipps, a good Whig and a middling poet, who had the honour of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby-Pamby.”

5. fiil To coddle.

   “While we business men of Britain have little time for this sort of namby-pambying towards the next generation, who are often feckless, tearful, small, dirty or all of the above, there is no doubt that youths have their place in commerce.”