Milquetoast
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Not to be confused with Milk toast.
For other uses, see Milquetoast the Cockroach and "Milktoast" (song).
Milquetoast is an American English dysphemism for a weak, timid, or bland person.
The word milquetoast derives from the name of Caspar Milquetoast, a diffident character in H. T. Webster's comic strip The Timid Soul.[1] The comic strip first ran in 1924 in the New York World; it was later published in the Herald Tribune.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ "Milquetoast". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
- ^ "Milquetoast". Online Etymolgy Dictionary. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
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- The Comics – Coulton Waugh – Google Books
- Prophet, Mark L.; Elizabeth Clare Prophet (2005). Lost Teachings on Finding God Within. p. 314. Note on Caspar Milquetoast
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