单词 | pablum |
释义 | Pablumn. Chiefly U.S. A proprietary name for: a wheat-based children's breakfast cereal. Hence more widely: soft, easily digested food; (figurative) insipid or undemanding intellectual fare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > breakfast cereals granola1886 cornflakes1890 cereal1899 shredded wheat1899 wheatflakes1903 Post Toasties1908 Wheaties1925 Rice Krispies1928 Pablum1932 Weetabix1936 muesli1939 flakes1951 snap, crackle, pop1954 sugar puff1957 granola1970 1932 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 July 596/2 Pablum. For specially prepared cereal food consisting of a mixture of wheat meal, to which have been added wheat embryo, dried yeast, powdered dehydrated alfalfa leaf and powdered beef bone prepared for human use. Claims use since June 4, 1932. 1953 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Space Merchants i. 9 Over the breakfast juices and the children's pablum..they spoke persuasively to each other about how wise and brave they had been to apply for passage in the Venus rocket. 1971 W. Hillen Blackwater River ii. 9 After a start on pablum and eggs and milk..he developed into a strong dog. 1989 Cineaste Sept. 54/3 A certain strain of pop sociology..proclaims that we are all ‘amusing ourselves to death’ while drugged on the spiked pablum of mindless radio and television. 2003 World Mag. (Nexis) 5 July I mention Service Hymnal mostly because it's a symbol of the pablum most Americans have been served in the name of hymnody. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1932 |
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