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milk-and-water en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Insipid, wishy-washy, weak.
    • […] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […] 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
    • He gave other equally milk-and-water examples and everyone grew sleepy, waiting for the last lap: ‘Our policy has been exactly the same each time.’ 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 166:

Forms

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most milk-and-water Degree=Sup lexicographic
more milk-and-water Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

milk-and-watery · milk-and-wateriness

milk-and-water en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Something insipid or mawkish.
  2. (obsolete, uncountable) A light bluish color.