milquetoast

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˈmɪlktəʊst/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

Named after Caspar Milquetoast, a character from the comic strip The Timid Soul, created by American cartoonist Harold Tucker Webster (1885–1952) and first published in 1924; the character was named after the American dish milk toast (“a food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk”).

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