名詞 milquetoast:

1. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
   同義詞：sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop

milque.toast

n.（名詞）
One who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature.
膽小如鼠的人，懦夫：個性懦弱、膽小、不堅定的人

來源：
After Caspar Milquetoast , a comic-strip character created by Harold Tucker Webster (885-952)
源自卡斯珀 Milquetoast ，哈樂德·塔科·韋伯斯特（885-952年）所創(chuàng)作的漫畫人物

【引伸】
milque.toast.y
adj.（形容詞）
<注釋>An indication of the effect on the English language of popular culture such as that found in comic strips is the adoption of names from the strips as English words.Casper Milquetoast, created by Harold Webster in 924, was a timid and retiring man,whose name was, of course, created from the name of a timid food.The first instance ofmilquetoast as a common noun is found in the mid-930`s. Milquetoast thus joins the ranks of other such words, includingsad sack, from a blundering army private invented by George Baker in 942,andWimpy, from J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye comic strip, which became a trade name for a hamburger.If we look to the related world of the animated cartoon,we must of course acknowledgeMickey Mouse, which has become a slang term for something that is easy, insignificant, small-time, worthless, or petty.
如果我們要在戲劇漫畫中找到流行文化對英語語言的影響，那么漫畫中的人物的名字被接受為英語單詞可以算是例證了，924年赫拉德·韋伯斯特所創(chuàng)造的卡斯珀·米爾克吐斯特是一個膽小如鼠的人，他的名字當然是從一種非常柔軟的食品而得來。Milquetoast 作為一個普通名詞的第一例子于20世紀30年代中期被發(fā)現(xiàn)。 這樣milquetoast 就加入了一類詞， 這類詞包括sad sack ， 一個由喬治·貝克于942年發(fā)明指代愚蠢的陸軍士兵的詞匯，和Wimpy ，一個從滑稽漫畫 突眼 中的丁·惠靈頓·溫皮而得來的詞， 它現(xiàn)在已成為漢堡包的商標。如果我們再看看相關(guān)的動畫世界，我們當然得承認米奇老鼠 現(xiàn)在已成為指代容易的、不重要的、沒有價值的或瑣碎的東西的一個俚語詞