Namby Pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. It originates from Namby Pamby (1725) by Henry Carey. Carey wrote his poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his Poems on Several Occasions. Its first publication was Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address`d to A----- P----, where the A-- .... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namby_Pamby
• (n.) Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. • (a.) Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. • (n.) Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. • (a.) Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/namby-pamby/
Nam'by-pam`by noun [ From Ambrose Phillips , in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/2