Milquetoast is an American English dysphemism for a weak, timid, or bland person. The word milquetoast derives from the name of Caspar Milquetoast, a diffident character in H. T. Webster`s comic strip The Timid Soul. The comic strip first ran in 1924 in the New York World; it was later published in the Herald Tribune. ==Further sources== ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milquetoast