pabulum

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  1. noun A substance that gives nourishment; food.
  2. noun Insipid intellectual nourishment: "TV . . . gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum” (Richard Corliss).

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  1. Latin pābulum; see pā- in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, by confusion with pablum.

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  1. = Old French pabule = Spanish pábulo = Portuguese Italian pabulo, from Latin pabulum, food, fodder, from √ pa in pascere, feed: see pasture.
 

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/ˈpæbjuləm/
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