a soft, bland cereal food for infants
Origin of Pablum
contr. from pabulum[p-] any oversimplified or bland writing, ideas, etc.
Pablum
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pablum
noun
- A bland soft cereal for infants.
- Intellectual material that is bland, trite, or insipid: “It was the sort of pablum routinely pronounced by State Department spokesmen when they had no real policy to describe” ( Steve Coll )
Origin of pablum
Originally a trademarkPablum
A trademark for a bland soft cereal for infants.
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