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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...
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poets of his time,
resulting in
Henry Carey bestowing the
nickname "
Namby-
Pamby" upon him,
which came to mean affected, weak, and
maudlin speech or verse...
- four
elegies attributed to Cooke;
English Colonial America Henry Carey,
Namby Pamby: or, a
panegyrick on the new
versification address'd to A----- P----...
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successful that
Carey himself began to be
known as "
Namby Pamby Carey" (while
Philips became known as "
Namby Pamby"), and the poem even came to be used as children's...
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rhyme is
suggested by its use by
Henry Carey in his
satire Namby Pamby (1725), as:
Namby Pamby is no clown,
London Bridge is
broken down: Now he courts...
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wherever possible.
Rediff On The NeT, Movies: 'I don't like
making namby-
pamby pictures.' "'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' wins all top
Filmfare honors". India...
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frilled shirt ****ociated with
English storybook schoolboys of the
namby-
pamby kind. Over the
following decades, he
became The Bulletin's
stock symbol...
- Tale of a Tub by
Jonathan Swift The Rape of the Lock by
Alexander Pope
Namby Pamby by
Henry Carey Northanger Abbey by Jane
Austen Gulliver's
Travels by...
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Songs (1870). The
earliest reference to the well-known
verse is in "
Namby Pamby", a
satire by
Henry Carey published in 1725, in
which he
himself italicised...
- from
animation producer Bruce Timm, who
dismissed Gargoyles as "kind of
namby-
pamby... with all that
Celtic fantasy ****" in a 1999
interview and the animation...
