Usually means: Weakly sentimental or overly delicate.
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  1. namby-pamby: Merriam-Webster
  2. namby-pamby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. namby-pamby: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. namby-pamby, namby-pamby: Collins English Dictionary
  5. namby-pamby: Vocabulary.com
  6. namby-pamby: Wordnik
  7. namby-pamby: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. namby-pamby: Wiktionary
  9. namby-pamby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. namby-pamby: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. namby-pamby: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Namby-pamby, namby-pamby: Dictionary.com
  13. namby-pamby: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Namby-Pamby, Namby-pamby: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Namby-pamby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. namby-pamby: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. namby-pamby: Rhymezone
  18. Namby-pamby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. namby-pamby: FreeDictionary.org
  20. namby-pamby: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  22. Namby-pamby: World Wide Words

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  1. namby-pamby: A Word A Day
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  1. namby-pamby: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Insipid and sentimental.
adjective:  Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless; wishy-washy.
noun:  One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
noun:  Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
verb:  To coddle.

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