OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 33564

namby-pamby

Meanings (ES + gloss)
ñoño
Insipid and sentimental.
soso
Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy.
We can honestly commend the Atlantic Monthly as the most able and spirited of American periodicals, at the present time, and we like it, moreover, because it dares have opinions an…
[…] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]