noun
- toast, usually buttered, served in hot milk with sugar or with salt and pepper.
adjective
- easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
noun
- milquetoast.
noun
- a variant spelling of milquetoast
n.also milk-toast, “toast softened in milk,” 1831, from milk (n.) + toast (n.). Figurative of softness or innocence by 1859.