Meaning of marshmallowy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.
2. Soft and fluffy.
3. Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating.
4. Vacuous.

Examples

“An ice-cube crusher for $1, a cake slicer, something like a miniature rake, to cut smoothly through the marshmallowiest frosting without a leak, for $1, […] were just a few I put on my list.”

“I can only guess at Wavy Gravy I scream. I suspect it's a version of heavenly hash, which is a marshmallowier version of rocky road.”

““The Peep is a monument to the industrial paradigm of ‘More, faster, sugarier, marshmallowier,”’ says another award-winning Peeps page Webmaster, Jack Eidsness, a University of Maryland computer science major. “As opposed to something like chocolate bunnies, or a peanut egg, this food goes straight for the throat![…]””

““[…] Now who wants to try my marshmallow meringue?” We all raised our hands, so he took out six spoons, dipped them into the bowl, and handed one to each of us. It looked like whipped cream, but it was actually denser, stickier, marshmallowier, and probably one of the best things I’ve ever tasted in my entire life.”

““It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.””

“I didn't want a self-pitying, poor Miss Pitiful Pearl, a marshmallowy wilted flower, or a nagging bitch for the wife. I wanted somebody with inborn dignity and pride, with the strength of understanding, a real human being. Not only a good actress.”

“Percy struck some of the people who worked with him as an ineffective legislator, marshmallowy and yielding in the way of many moderate politicians.”

“The spirit of Oprah is haunting yet another session of Sex Week. Once again, a basically tawdry event has come packaged in all kinds of marshmallowy language about self-understanding and self-acceptance.”

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