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Namby-pamby
Namby-pamby Nam"by-pam`by, n. [From Ambrose Phillips, in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. --Macaulay.
Namby-pamby
Namby-pamby Nam"by-pam`by, a. Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. --Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. --W. Gifford.

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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 the...
- 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 Abroad...
- Davis was welcomed as Duramboi, the reincarnated son of tribal leader Pamby-Pamby. Davis ****imilated into the native culture and lived as a Kabi Kabi man...
- 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...
- Buster The Big One. Publication date 20 July 1964 – 15 June 1974 Creative team Artist(s) Eric Bradbury Tom Kerr Jack Pamby Alan Philpott Doug Maxted...
- Niederjohn as Velcro Head Tom Bethke as Graggy Elizabeth Gray as Namby Pamby Bridget Fonda as Annabella (uncredited) Eleanor Mondale as Attractive customer...
- 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 ill...