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Noun: pablum
Usage: rare
  1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas
    "The article was nothing but pablum, offering no real insights";
    - pap
Noun: Pablum  pa-blum
  1. A trademark for a soft, processed cereal for infants
    "The baby readily accepted the Pablum mixed with milk"

Derived forms: pablums

Type of: applesauce [N. Amer, informal], bilge [informal], bull [slang], buncombe [informal], bunk [informal], bunkum [informal], bushwa [N. Amer, informal], bushwah [N. Amer, informal], cereal, codswallop [Brit, informal], drivel, falderal, flapdoodle [N. Amer, informal], folderol, garbage, guff [informal], hogwash [informal], Irish bull [slang], jive [N. Amer, informal], junk [informal], nonsense, rhubarb [Brit, informal], rot [informal], rubbish [informal], trash [informal], tripe [informal], trumpery [archaic], wish-wash [informal]

Part of: pap, soft diet, spoon food

Encyclopedia: Pablum