namby-pambyˈnæm biˈpæm bi
namby-pamby
English Definitions:
namby-pamby (adj)
an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental
namby-pamby, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy (adj)
weak in willpower, courage or vitality
namby-pamby (Noun)
One that is insipid, sentimental or weak.
namby-pamby (Adjective)
Insipid and sentimental
namby-pamby (Adjective)
Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy
Namby-pamby
Namby-pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. It originates from Namby Pamby (1725) by Henry Carey. Carey wrote his 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-- implicated 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 steerer of the realm, to Miss Pulteney in the nursery." This 3.5' line became 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. Philips was a figure who had become politically active and was a darling of the Whig party. He was also a target of the Tory satirists. Alexander Pope had criticized Philips repeatedly (in The Guardian and in his Peri Bathos, among other places), and praising or condemning Philips was a political as much as poetic matter in the 1720s, with the nickname also employed by John Gay and Jonathan Swift.
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