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 (n): an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental
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8 months ago sionnach said:

Origin: 1726; rhyming compound based on the first syll. of Ambrose Philips; first used as a nickname for Philips in the title of a poem by Henry Carey (1687?–1743) ridiculing his verse

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