Nam"by-pam`by (?), n. [From Ambrose Phillips, in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.]
Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
Macaulay.
© Webster 1913.
Nam"by-pam`by, a.
Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
Thackeray.
Namby-pamby madrigals of love.
W. Gifford.
© Webster 1913.