pablumish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pablum +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

pablumish (comparative more pablumish, superlative most pablumish)

  1. (rare) Resembling pablum.
    • 1974, Ben Fong-Torres, The Rolling stone rock'n'roll reader, page 92:
      This is not a "protest" song as they have come to be called, but it makes most everything recently done in that bag look pretty pablumish. Mick opens the song with these lines: "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste."
    • 2014, Malcolm Bedell, Jillian Bedell, Eating In Maine: At Home, On the Town and On the Road, →ISBN:
      The stuffing gets zapped in the microwave, but you get impatient and slap the turkey on straight out of the fridge. I ate it all up, peering under turkey stragglers on my plate for any last remaining bits of wonderful, moist, pablumish stuffing.