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单词 pablum
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Pablumn.

Brit. /ˈpabləm/, U.S. /ˈpæbl(ə)m/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: pabulum n.
Etymology: Probably shortened < pabulum n.
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.
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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).
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