marshmallowy

Adjective

marshmallowy (comparative marshmallowier, superlative marshmallowiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.
   • An ice-cube crusher for $1, a cake slicer, something like a miniature rake, to cut smoothly through the marshmallowiest frosting without a leak, for $1, […] were just a few I put on my list.1933 April 23, Katharine Blank, “Busy Housewife Finds Gadgets Galore for Spring Bride’s Kitchen Shower […]”, in Brooklyn Times Union, Long Island edition, 86th year, Brooklyn, N.Y., →OCLC, page 10...
   • I can only guess at Wavy Gravy I scream. I suspect it's a version of heavenly hash, which is a marshmallowier version of rocky road.1997 February 11, Mark Odegard, “English English or American English”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Jun 2025
   1. Soft and fluffy.
2. Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating.
   • “It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.”2002, Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Cooper Square Press, →ISBN, page 187
   • I didn't want a self-pitying, poor Miss Pitiful Pearl, a marshmallowy wilted flower, or a nagging bitch for the wife. I wanted somebody with inborn dignity and pride, with the strength of understanding, a real human being. Not only a good actress.2011, Andre De Toth, Fragments, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 18
3. Vacuous.
   • The spirit of Oprah is haunting yet another session of Sex Week. Once again, a basically tawdry event has come packaged in all kinds of marshmallowy language about self-understanding and self-acceptance.2012, Nathan Harden, Sex and God at Yale, →ISBN, page 177