pabulum

American  

[pab-yuh-luhm] / ˈpæb yə ləm /

noun

1. something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.

2. material for intellectual nourishment.

3. pablum.

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pabulum British  

/ ˈpæbjʊləm /

noun

1. food

2. food for thought, esp when bland or dull

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Etymology

Origin of pabulum

1670–80; < Latin pābulum food, nourishment, equivalent to pā ( scere ) to feed (akin to food ) + -bulum noun suffix of instrument

Example Sentences

Rob, looking over her shoulder, laughed to see the list she had chosen: "Indefatigability, Juxtaposition, Loquaciousness, Pabulum, Peregrinate, Longevous."

From The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

Pabulum is nothing without a preëxisting "something" to dispose of it.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

Pabulum, pab′ū-lum, n. food of any kind, especially that of animals and plants: provender: fuel: nourishment for the mind.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Pabulum of varying theories of future life Pass out of the country of the understanding of the young People do miss things when they are old!

From Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of John Galsworthy by Widger, David