namby-pamby

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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])
  2. 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.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Insipid and sentimental.
  2. Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy.
    — […] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]

词形变化

more namby-pamby comparative namby-pambier comparative most namby-pamby superlative namby-pambiest superlative mamby-pamby alternative namby-pambies plural mamby-pamby alternative namby-pambies present,singular,third-person namby-pambying participle,present namby-pambied participle,past namby-pambied past mamby-pamby alternative

词汇关系

近义词
namby nestle-cock sissy softy
衍生词
namby pamby namby-pambiness namby-pambyism namby-pambical

词源

词源 1
From the poem Namby-Pamby (1726) by Henry Carey, a satire on the sentimental pastorals of the poet Ambrose Phillips.
词源 2
From the poem Namby-Pamby (1726) by Henry Carey, a satire on the sentimental pastorals of the poet Ambrose Phillips.
词源 3
From the poem Namby-Pamby (1726) by Henry Carey, a satire on the sentimental pastorals of the poet Ambrose Phillips.
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