单词 | namby-pamby |
释义 | namby-pamby adj. & n. --adj   1. lacking vigour or drive; weak.   2. insipidly pretty or sentimental. --n (pl. -ies)   1. a namby-pamby person.   2. namby-pamby talk. Etymology: fanciful formulation on name of Ambrose Philips, Engl. pastoral writer d. 1749 |
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