present participle of namby-pamby

simple past tense and past participle of namby-pamby

(taxonomy, of a taxon) For a species or lower-order taxon, a type (specimen or illustration) that determines the application of the species name; for a genus, the type species; for a family, the type genus.

plural of name-bearing type

To fix the date of an event, especially one's marriage.

(euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.

the habit of biting one's fingernails.

plural of safe navigation operator

(programming) A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code that would otherwise need multiple explicit checks for nullity.

(historical) The first and oldest of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally enclosed in a serekh surmounted by the figure of a god (usually Horus)