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Pabulums

[pab-yuh-luhm]

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noun

something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.

material for intellectual nourishment.

Origin:
1670–80; < Latin pābulum food, nourishment, equivalent to pā(scere) to feed (akin to food) + -bulum noun suffix of instrument

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pabulum

"food," 1678, from L. pabulum "fodder, food," from PIE base *pa- "to protect, feed" (see food) + instrumentive suffix *-dhlom. Pablum (1932), derived from this, is a trademark (Mead Johnson & Co.) for a soft, bland cereal used as a food for weak and invalid people, hence fig.

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use (attested from 1970, first by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew) in ref. to "mushy" political prose.

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