"Caspar Milquetoast is a comic strip character created by H. T. Webster for his cartoon series The Timid Soul. The character's name is derived from a bland and fairly inoffensive food, milk toast, which, light and easy to digest, is an appropriate food for someone with a weak or "nervous" stomach. Because of the popularity of Webster's character, the term milquetoast came into general usage in American English to mean "weak and ineffectual""
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"Caspar Milquetoast is a comic strip character created by H. T. Webster for his cartoon series The Timid Soul. The character's name is derived from a bland and fairly inoffensive food, milk toast, which, light and easy to digest, is an appropriate food for someone with a weak or "nervous" stomach. Because of the popularity of Webster's character, the term milquetoast came into general usage in American English to mean "weak and ineffectual""