Usually means: Weak, overly sentimental or delicate.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word namby pamby:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. namby pamby: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. namby-pamby: Merriam-Webster
  3. namby-pamby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. namby-pamby: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. namby-pamby, namby-pamby: Collins English Dictionary
  6. namby-pamby: Vocabulary.com
  7. namby-pamby: Wordnik
  8. namby-pamby: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. namby-pamby: Wiktionary
  10. namby-pamby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. namby-pamby: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. namby-pamby: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Namby-pamby, namby-pamby, namby pamby: Dictionary.com
  14. namby-pamby: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Namby-Pamby, Namby Pamby, Namby-pamby: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Namby-pamby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. namby-pamby: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. namby-pamby: Rhymezone
  19. Namby-pamby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. namby-pamby: FreeDictionary.org
  21. namby-pamby: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Namby Pamby: The Word Detective
  23. namby-pamby: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Namby-pamby: World Wide Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. namby-pamby: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. namby-pamby: A Word A Day
  2. namby-pamby: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. namby-pamby: Urban Dictionary
  2. Namby pamby: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook


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