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1 milk toast milquetoast
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > milk toast milquetoast
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2 застенчивый человек
2) American: milquetoast3) Australian slang: sook4) Jargon: milk toast milquetoast, rubber sock5) Makarov: introvertУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > застенчивый человек
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3 очень добрый человек
Jargon: milk toast milquetoastУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > очень добрый человек
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1) General subject: backward, bashful, can't say boo to a goose, coward, diffident, faint, fearful, gingerly, gutless, hindwards, humble, milk toast, milk-toast, mousy, ovine, pigeon hearted, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, poor-spirited, scarey, scary, shamefaced, sheep, sheepish, shivery, shrinking, shy, spiritless, tentative, timid, timorous, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, weak hearted, weak-hearted, sheep-faced, hesitant, fainthearted2) Biology: timid (о животном)3) Dialect: timorsome4) American: milquetoast5) Poetical language: fearsome6) Psychology: introvert7) Jargon: rubber sock8) Environment: hinted9) Makarov: tenuous10) Archaic: heartless
См. также в других словарях:
milk|toast — «MIHLK TOHST», noun. = milquetoast. (Cf. ↑milquetoast) milk toast, toast served with or in (usually hot) milk … Useful english dictionary
Milk toast — Not to be confused with Milquetoast. Milk toast is a breakfast food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter.[1] Salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon, cocoa, raisins and other ingredients may be added.[2] In New… … Wikipedia
milk toast — noun : hot usually buttered toast served in hot milk and sweetened with sugar or seasoned with salt and pepper * * * toast, usually buttered, served in hot milk with sugar or with salt and pepper. [1850 55, Amer.] * * * milk|toast «MIHLK TOHST»,… … Useful english dictionary
milk-toast — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: milk toast : lacking in boldness or vigor : mild, inoffensive milk toast policy of dealing with criminals * * * /milk tohst /, adj. 1. easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; … Useful english dictionary
milk-toast — /milk tohst /, adj. 1. easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby pamby; wishy washy. n. 2. milquetoast. [1815 25] * * * … Universalium
milquetoast — ☆ milquetoast [milk′tōst΄ ] n. [after Caspar Milquetoast, character of this sort in a comic strip by H. T. Webster (1885 1952), U.S. cartoonist (< milk toast, toast in warm milk)] a timid, shrinking, apologetic person … English World dictionary
milquetoast — milque|toast [ mılk,toust ] noun count OLD FASHIONED an insulting word for a boy or man who is not brave … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Caspar Milquetoast — was a comic strip character created by Harold Webster in 1924 for his comic strip The Timid Soul , published in the New York World . Webster continued to produce the comic strip until his death in 1952, after which his assistant Herb Roth carried … Wikipedia
Milque|toast — or Milque|toast «MIHLK TOHST», noun. an extremely timid person: »Foreign policy planners fear the U.S. gets a Milquetoast reputation abroad (Wall Street Journal). ╂[< the comic strip character, Caspar Milquetoast, probably < milk toast] … Useful english dictionary
milque|toast — or Milque|toast «MIHLK TOHST», noun. an extremely timid person: »Foreign policy planners fear the U.S. gets a Milquetoast reputation abroad (Wall Street Journal). ╂[< the comic strip character, Caspar Milquetoast, probably < milk toast] … Useful english dictionary
milktoast — milk|toast [ mılk,toust ] another spelling of milquetoast … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
