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    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      So I wanted to know where the phrase milquetoast comes from bc it’s a weird word and thought I should share my findings bc it is cool.

      from Caspar Milquetoast, character created by U.S. newspaper cartoonist H.T. Webster (1885-1952) in the strip “The Timid Soul,” which ran from 1924 in the “New York World” and later the “Herald Tribune.” By 1930 the name was being referenced as a type of the meek man.