2014年3月24日 · I almost always see milquetoast written not in the French form "milquetoast" but the English form "milk toast". Technically, writing "milk toast" in place of "milquetoast" is wrong …

Why is it milquetoast, and not milk toast? Caspar Milquetoast is a comic strip character created in 1924 by cartoonist Harold T. Webster. Beginning a few years after the character's debut, the …

A milquetoast is a person who is skittish, unassuming, timid, weak. Milquetoast is mainly an American term, coming from an American cartoon drawn by Harold T Webster in the 1920s …

2024年8月11日 · Milquetoast and Milktoast both refer to the same idea but have different spelling origins. Milquetoast is the correct spelling, derived from the name of a timid cartoon character, …

2024年3月15日 · Milk toast is made with (you guessed it!) milk and toast. The toast is usually cut or torn into bite-sized pieces, while the milk is typically sweetened with sugar and flavored with …

“Milk toast” refers to a simple dish of buttered toast in milk, while “milquetoast” describes a person who is overly timid or unassertive. Knowing these distinctions will help you use these words …

2018年4月16日 · Merriam-Webster defines “ milquetoast ” as “a timid, meek, or unassertive person,” the implication being that a “milquetoast” person is afraid to stand up, worried about …

Milk toast is a dessert that is served in Asian milk tea cafes. It consists of thick, enriched toasted white bread with condensed milk on top. It is called shahi tukda ( Bengali : শাহী টুকরা ) in …

2015年1月6日 · It's not that the person being described is like bread soaked in milk, it's that they eat bread soaked in milk. Milktoast was a common dish (recommended even by physicians of …

2019年6月18日 · Milk toast refers to buttered toast usually served in warm milk with sugar and seasonings. Milquetoast refers to a shy, timid, or unassertive person. The origin of the word is …