pablum

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpæbləm/    美 /ˈpæbl(ə)m/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”). US,alt-of,uncountable,usually
  2. Mushy, easily digested food; pap; (countable) a specific type of such food. US,broadly,uncountable,usually
    — The juice from its hydro-power dam was needed to supply meager light to a million homes and to cook the pablum for two million brand-new babies.
  3. Something overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing. US,countable,derogatory,figuratively,uncountable
    — "If you want to be filled with pablum and tranquilizers," [Robert F.] Kennedy told crowds, "then don’t vote for me. I'm not going to give you any tired answers. […] I'm going to tell it like it is."

词形变化

pablums plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pablumese pablumish pablumize

词源

A variant of Pablum, the name of a food supplement for malnourished infants developed in 1931 by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Mead Johnson & Company, probably a shortening of Latin pābulum (“fodder for animals; food, nourishment”), from pā(scō) (“to feed, nourish; to drive to pasture; to support; to tend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, ward; to shepherd”)) + -bulum (suffix denoting an instrument) (from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix denoting an instrument or tool))), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (from *peh₂- + *-dʰlom). The name was trademarked in the United States in 1932.
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