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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...

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...

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...

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...

Movie". Box Office India. Rediff On The NeT, Movies: 'I don't like making namby-pamby pictures.' "'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' wins all top Filmfare honors". India...

Clark Niederjohn as Velcro Head Tom Bethke as Graggy Elizabeth Gray as Namby Pamby Bridget Fonda as Annabella (uncredited) Eleanor Mondale as Attractive...

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...

and frilled shirt associated with English storybook schoolboys of the namby-pamby kind. Over the following decades, he became The Bulletin's stock symbol...

half-dozen or so that appear in Henry Carey's 1725 satire on Ambrose Philips, Namby Pamby. The book contains forty nursery rhymes, many of which are still popular...

either juvenile (as in Humpty Dumpty or hokey-pokey) or pejorative (as in namby-pamby or mumbo-jumbo); further, Hobson and Jobson were stock characters in...

real aficionado of Nurse Chapel, I figured she was kind of weak and namby-pamby." Writer David Gerrold, who worked with the staff of The Original Series...

need be followed in public and is unable to bring himself to adopt "the namby-pamby every-day decency of speaking well of one of whom he had ever thought...

four elegies attributed to Cooke; English Colonial America Henry Carey, Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----...

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...

sent to the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, where there would be no "namby-pamby legal hair-splitting". In January 1946, Baillie-Stewart was charged under...

substitute for the enormous quantity of thrice-diluted trash, in the shape of namby-pamby love tales and sketches, which is monthly poured out to them by many...

February 2021. Taliculam, Sharmila (30 August 1999). "'I don't like making namby-pamby pictures'". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2001....

Henry Carey was one of the best at satirizing these poems, and his Namby Pamby became a hugely successful obliteration of Philips and Philips's endeavour...

time". Barbara Windsor told the Sunday Mirror: "The writer didn't want a namby- pamby cat fight between two silly girls. We were throwing chairs and bottles...

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