The term is fucking milquetoast and not milk toast? That's the most retarded shit I've ever heard.
The term is fucking milquetoast and not milk toast? That's the most retarded shit I've ever heard.
Yep, it's milquetoast but yeah it just means milk toast anyway.
Apparently it's from the name of a character: https://www.etymonline.com/word/milquetoast
"timid, meek person," 1938, 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. The form seems to be milktoast with an added French twist; also see milksop.
Yep, it's milquetoast but yeah it just means milk toast anyway.
Apparently it's from the name of a character: https://www.etymonline.com/word/milquetoast
>"timid, meek person," 1938, 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. The form seems to be **milktoast** with an added French twist; also see **milksop**.
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