[Ads-l] namby-pamby 1726; antedates OED3 2003 1745-

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

For those interested, here are two references on "namby-pamby":
1) Gerald Cohen: "Towards A Comprehensive Treatment of 'Namby-Pamby'."
in: _Studies in Slang_ , part 3, (= Forum Anglicum, vol. 20),  1993, pp. 75-99.
2) Gerald Cohen: 'Why N- in Namby-Pamby? Clarification from Stephen Quinn.
in: Comments on Etymology, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 8-14.

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Hugo [hugovk at GMAIL.COM], Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:40 AM,  wrote:
Henry Carey's 1726 poem satirising Ambrose Philips is discussed in the
etymology section of the OED online, including two 1726 quotations and a
1729.

Hugo
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