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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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other 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...
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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...
- Movie". Box
Office India.
Rediff On The NeT, Movies: 'I don't like
making namby-pamby pictures.' "'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' wins all top
Filmfare honors". India...
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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...
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Nursery 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...
- 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...
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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...
- Tale of a Tub by
Jonathan Swift The Rape of the Lock by
Alexander Pope
Namby Pamby by
Henry Carey Northanger Abbey by Jane
Austen Gulliver's Travels...
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crank who
would make a
better villain". He felt
Jonathan Frakes "verges on
namby-pamby".
Actress Marina Sirtis later recalled the
reviews of the show's debut...
