What is Mamby Pamby?
1.
A wimpy insipid person that is as milk toast as the worst rhyming poetry imaginable. Coined in the 1700's to describe the work of poet Ambrose Phillips(1674-1749) These days it usually invoked at a person that can not function from an overuse of spirits or drugs.
Stosh, you crashed the Bungie server again after drinking a glass of sake, you mamby pamby nerd, I blame you!
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2.
A description of a person who engages in acts of cowardace, shyness, or stupidity.
Riley, you're such a mamby pamby for not going to
Mardi Gras with us.
Joe was playing 12 year olds in the ball pit at Chucky Cheeses and loving it, and he's 26 years old for God sakes. What a mamby pamby.
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