namby-pamby

Namby Pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. However, its origins are in Namby Pamby (1725), by Henry Carey.Carey wrote the poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his Poems on Several Occasions. Its first publication was Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----, where the A-- P-- was Ambrose Philips. Philips had written a series of odes in a new prosody of seven syllable lines and dedicated it to "all ages and characters, from Walpole sterrer of the realm, to miss Pulteney in the nursery." This 3.5' line was a matter of consternation for more conservative poets, and a matter of mirth for Carey. Carey adopts Philips's choppy line form for his parody and latches onto the dedication to nurseries to create an apparent nursery rhyme that is, in fact, a grand bit of nonsense and satire mixed.
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Noun
1. an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental
(hypernym) weakling, doormat, wuss
Adjective
1. weak in willpower
(synonym) spineless, wishy-washy
(similar) weak

(n.)
Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
  

(a.)
Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
  

namby-pamby /'næmbi'pæmbi/
tính từ nhạt nhẽo vô duyên; màu mè, điệu bộ đa sầu, đa cảm danh từ lời nói nhạt nhẽo vô duyên; câu chuyện nhạt nhẽo vô duyên người nhạt nhẽo vô duyên; người màu mè, điệu bộ văn uỷ mị, văn đa sầu đa cảma write of namby-pamby: nhà viết văn uỷ mị, nhà viết văn toàn viết những chuyện đa sầu đa cảm người đa sầu, đa cảm
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