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namby-pamby

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
namby-pamby /nambiˈpambi/ derogatory

▶adjective lacking courage or vigour; feeble. ▶noun (pl. namby-pambies) a namby-pamby person.

– origin C18: based on the given name of Ambrose Philips, an English writer whose pastorals were ridiculed as insipid.

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