| 词汇 | milquetoast |
| 词源 | Milquetoast. Timorous men are still called Caspar Mil- quetoasts, or Milquetoasts, even though the cartoon character of that name, created by H. T. Webster as “The Timid Soul” in the 1930s, has long ceased to appear in the Sunday comics. |
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