milquetoast

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   meek or timid

   I tried not to be the milquetoast spouse that some people thought I was.

2. 2
   noun

   a person that is meek or timid

   The milquetoast was compelled to act.

3. 3
   adj

   Meek, timid; lacking character or effectiveness.

   The truth is that we are cursed with a "milquetoast" Government operating under "milquetoast" policies. Fear has become a national policy.

4. 4
   adj

   Alternative letter-case form of milquetoast.

   If Bach had any guts, he wouldn't take that. He's too much of a Milquetoast guy.

Named after Caspar Milquetoast, a character from the comic strip The Timid Soul, created by American cartoonist Harold Tucker Webster (1885–1952) and first published in 1924; the character was named after the American dish milk toast (“a food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk”).

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