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femmenietzsche:

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namby-pamby (adj.)

\u201cweakly sentimental, affectedly nice, insipidly pretty,\u201d 1745, from the satiric nickname of English poet Ambrose Philips\n (1674-1749), \u201ca good Whig and a middling poet\u201d [Macaulay] mocking his \nsentimental pastorals addressed to infant members of the nobility. Used \nfirst in 1726 in a farce credited to Carey (Pope also used it). Related:\n Namby-pambical.

That\u2019s always a fun surprise - when a word turns out to have its origin in mocking some loser you\u2019ve never even heard of before

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