a namby-pamby person is someone who is weedy, anxious, a coward
and just messing around all the time instead of being brave and
getting down to the job.
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Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This meant sickly or
sentimental. A cowboy would never send a namby-pamby valentine to
another cowboy.
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Ambrose Philips was the namby-pamby butt of 18th century poetic
satire.