Pablum vs Pabulum - What's the difference?
pablum | pabulum |
Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
*1992 , October 23rd, Daily Sentinel,
Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.
Material that feeds a fire.
(lb) Food for thought.
Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum .
Pabulum is a descendant of pablum.
As nouns the difference between pablum and pabulum
is that pablum is anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing while pabulum is food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.As a proper noun Pablum
is a cereal brand for infants made from wheat, oat and cornmeal.pablum
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(wikipedia pablum)Noun
(-)Writer Likes Clinton, on page 2:
- The Republican argument today is pablum , mush and saccharine (which exhausts my edible metaphors).
