marshmallowy
English
Etymology
marshmallow + -y
Adjective
marshmallowy (comparative more marshmallowy, superlative most marshmallowy)
- Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.
- Soft and fluffy.
- Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating.
- 2002, Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Cooper Square Press →ISBN, page 187
- “It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.”
- 2011, Andre De Toth, Fragments, Faber & Faber →ISBN, page 18
- I didn't want a self-pitying, poor Miss Pitiful Pearl, a marshmallowy wilted flower, or a nagging bitch for the wife. I wanted somebody with inborn dignity and pride, with the strength of understanding, a real human being. Not only a good actress.
- 2012, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Rule and Ruin, →ISBN, page 226:
- Percy struck some of the people who worked with him as an ineffective legislator, marshmallowy and yielding in the way of many moderate politicians.
- 2002, Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Cooper Square Press →ISBN, page 187
- Vacuous.
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:marshmallowy.