Crossword clues for pablum
pablum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pablum \Pablum\ n.
A form of cereal for infants. [Trademark]
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A diet that does not require chewing.
Syn: soft diet, pap, spoon food.
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Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
Syn: pap, pabulum[3].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
See pabulum.
Wiktionary
n. Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
Wikipedia
Pablum is a processed cereal for infants originally marketed by the Mead Johnson Company in 1931. The trademarked name is a contracted form of the Latin word pabulum, which means "foodstuff". The name had long been used in botany and medicine to refer to nutrition or substances of which the nutritive elements are passively absorbed.
The word can also refer to something that is bland, mushy, unappetizing, or infantile.
Usage examples of "pablum".
Just the thing to go with all that bland pablum you dish out, Lady Dulcinea.
He levitated the instrument to his mouth, licked the pablum from it, and sent it back to the bowl for more.
She would happily retreat into the world of Pablum and housework, hearing nothing but the coo of her baby for hours at a time, occasionally chatting briefly with other mothers pushing children in strollers, her world shrinking to the circumference of her house and the man she lived with.
All the stories and the movies and the patriotic pablum the schools dish out instead of history prove it.
A typical 1945 monthly family ration consisted of fourteen pounds of flour, a pound of tea, three pounds of sugar, three pounds of rolled oats, two pounds of rice, six packages of Pablum and a gallon of coal oil.
Sparrow, is that everybody marries right out of high school and ends up with whiny little kids and Pablum all over their cheerleader sweaters.
Frustrated with the news pablum, Krin and I went to my room to look for some real background.