marshmallowy

English

Etymology

marshmallow +‎ -y

Adjective

marshmallowy (comparative more marshmallowy, superlative most marshmallowy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.
   1. Soft and fluffy.
2. Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating.
   • 2002, Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Cooper Square Press, →ISBN, page 187:

     “It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.”

   • 2011, Andre De Toth, Fragments, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 18:

     I didn't want a self-pitying, poor Miss Pitiful Pearl, a marshmallowy wilted flower, or a nagging bitch for the wife. I wanted somebody with inborn dignity and pride, with the strength of understanding, a real human being. Not only a good actress.

   • 2012, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Rule and Ruin, →ISBN, page 226:

     Percy struck some of the people who worked with him as an ineffective legislator, marshmallowy and yielding in the way of many moderate politicians.

3. Vacuous.

Quotations

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