NAMBY-PAMBY
\nˈambipˈambi], \nˈambipˈambi], \n_ˈa_m_b_i_p_ˈa_m_b_i]\
Definitions of NAMBY-PAMBY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
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Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
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Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
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Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A term of contempt applied by his enemies to the poetry of Ambrose Phillips about the close of the 17th century; sentimentally weak; affectedly pretty, as poetry.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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