| 单词 | namby-pamby |
| 释义 | namby-pamby —namby-pambiness, namby-pambyism, n. —namby-pambyish, adj. /nam"bee pam"bee/, adj., n., pl. namby-pambies for 4. adj. 1. without firm methods or policy; weak or indecisive: namby-pamby handling of juvenile offenders. 2. lacking in character, directness, or moral or emotional strength: namby-pamby writing. 3. weakly sentimental, pretentious, or affected; insipid. n. 4. a namby-pamby person: written by and for namby-pambies. 5. namby-pamby sentiment: the harmless namby-pamby of a birthday card. 6. namby-pamby verse or prose. [1726; rhyming compound based on the first syll. of Ambrose Philips; first used as a nickname for Philips in the title of a poem by Henry Carey (1687?-1743) ridiculing his verse] |
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