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pablum|ˈpæbləm|
Also Pablum.
The proprietary name of a children's breakfast cereal. Also fig.
1932Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 July 596/2 Mead Johnson & Company, Evansville, Indiana. Pablum. For specially prepared cereal food consisting of a mixture of wheat meal, to which have been added wheat embryo, dried yeast, powdered dehydrated alfalfa leaf and powdered beef bone prepared for human use. Claims use since June 4, 1932. 1941Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 Feb. 47/2 Pablum... A food for infants and invalids. Mead Johnson & Company,..Evansville, State of Indiana, United States of America; manufacturers. 1953Pohl & Kornbluth Space Merchants i. 9 Over the breakfast juices and the children's pablum..they spoke persuasively to each other about how wise and brave they had been to apply for passage in the Venus rocket. 1956P. Frank Forbidden Area i. 40 He would want her to quit her job, and eventually..there would be children. She would find..her research downgraded to equations involving boiled water, evaporated milk, Karo syrup, and pablum. 1964A. Tyler If Morning ever Comes xi. 160 Joanne never picks up. I had to scrape pablum off the damn toaster this morning. 1970Listener 22 Oct. 538 In one week Spiro Agnew ascribed moral decay to the universities, Dr Spock, and the Presidential Commission on Campus Unrest, which, he said, had produced a report which ‘was sure to be taken as more pablum for the permissivists’. 1971W. Hillen Blackwater River ii. 9 After a start on pablum and eggs and milk..he developed into a strong dog. 1976Amer. N. & Q. XIV. 147/2 Its [sc. Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince] obvious allegory and its appeal to a patronizing benevolence are palatable as pablum, but hardly to be trusted to sustain Eliot's confused, but intellectual Fisher King. |