milk toast

¹

noun

1. toast, usually buttered, served in hot milk with sugar or with salt and pepper.

milk-toast

²

[milk-tohst]

adjective

1. easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.

noun

1. milquetoast.

Word History and Origins

Origin of milk toast¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Origin of milk toast²

First recorded in 1815–25