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Namby-
pamby is a term for affected, weak, and
maudlin speech/verse. It
originates from the poem
Namby Pamby (1725) by
Henry Carey.
Carey wrote his poem...
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successful that
Carey himself began to be
known as "
Namby Pamby Carey" (while
Philips became known as "
Namby Pamby"), and the poem even came to be used as children's...
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poets of his time,
resulting in
Henry Carey bestowing the
nickname "
Namby-
Pamby" upon him,
which came to mean affected, weak, and
maudlin speech or verse...
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rhyme is
suggested by its use by
Henry Carey in his
satire Namby Pamby (1725), as:
Namby Pamby is no clown,
London Bridge is
broken down: Now he courts...
- four
elegies attributed to Cooke;
English Colonial America Henry Carey,
Namby Pamby: or, a
panegyrick on the new
versification address'd to A----- P----...
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Songs (1870). The
earliest reference to the well-known
verse is in "
Namby Pamby," a
satire by
Henry Carey published in 1725, in
which he
himself italicised...
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Clark Niederjohn as
Velcro Head Tom
Bethke as
Graggy Elizabeth Gray as
Namby Pamby Bridget Fonda as
Annabella (uncredited)
Eleanor Mondale as Attractive...
- need be
followed in
public and is
unable to
bring himself to
adopt "the
namby-
pamby every-day
decency of
speaking well of one of whom he had ever thought...
- real
aficionado of
Nurse Chapel, I
figured she was kind of weak and
namby-
pamby."
Writer David Gerrold, who
worked with the
staff of The
Original Series...
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either juvenile (as in
Humpty Dumpty or hokey-pokey) or
pejorative (as in
namby-
pamby or mumbo-jumbo); further,
Hobson and
Jobson were
stock characters in...
