Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Midland U.S. A teat or nipple.
- n. Something resembling a nipple.
- n. Soft or semiliquid food, as for infants.
- n. Material lacking real value or substance: TV shows that offer nothing but pap.
- n. Slang Money and favors obtained as political patronage: "self-seeking politicians primarily interested in patronage, privilege, and pap” ( Fiorello H. La Guardia).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A teat; a nipple; the breast of a woman.
- n. A conical hill resembling a nipple or teat: as, the Paps of Jura (an island west of Scotland.).
- n. Soft food for infants, usually made of bread boiled or softened with water or milk.
- n. Hence The emoluments of public office, as salaries, fees, or perquisites.
- n. The pulp of fruit, or pulp of any kind.
- To feed with pap.
- n. Papa; father.
- n. A short cylindrical projection used to furnish a hold for the lathe-center on a easting which is to be turned; a socket; a tit.
Wiktionary
- n. Pap smear
- adj. : Flat
- v. Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
- n. uncountable Food in the form of soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- n. uncountable, colloquial Nonsense.
- n. South Africa Porridge.
- adj. slang, South Africa Spineless, wet, without character.
- v. transitive, obsolete To feed with pap.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.
- n. A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
- n. A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softened in milk or water.
- n. Any speech, writing, or idea lacking substance, or of trivial content; oversimplified, trite, or worthless ideas.
- n. Colloq. & Contemptuous Nourishment or support from official patronage.
- n. The pulp of fruit.
- v. To feed with pap.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the small projection of a mammary gland
- n. a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
- n. worthless or oversimplified ideas
Etymologies
- Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам ("to eat") and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati ("to eat"), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pappe, probably from Latin papilla; see papilla.Middle English, from Old French papa, from Latin, children's word for food. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This curious concoction of meaningless pap is heartening, in that it reinforces my conviction that those who like to trumpet their freedom from religion are themselves slaves to ignorance and irrationality.”
“This was, we were told, because the staple food, pap, is almost 100 percent carbs, which men can apparently digest or burn more quickly than women.”
Why Are Women More Likely to Be Obese Than Men? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“The man in the road was "pap" -- tight -- and they were trying to get him home.”
“Apparently pap as in pap smear is unrelated: it’s short for Georgios Papanikolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear.”
“New guidelines out today for cervical cancer screenings also know as pap test.”
“Each month after she received her pension, Gogo bought them a large bag of finely ground white cornmeal, called mealie meal, which was cooked into a stiff porridge called pap.”
“Zack knows about the so-called pap just as he knows where my tattoo was.”
“The earliest specimens simply bear the pope's name on one side and the word papæ on the other.”
“Dominie Graves were in the witness-box, and said as how yer pap were a wicked daddy of a wickeder gal, and the jedge made him tell as how ye was so cussed, and yer daddy's humps riz up like a cat's back wet with cold tea.”
“In _infancy_ the most frequent cause of scrofula is the premature giving of _farinaceous_ food besides the mother's milk, or the feeding of children with so-called pap, especially when this is done in the _first month of their life_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pap’.
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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WF - palindromes
alula, anna, bib, bob, civic, dad, deed, dud, DVD, eve, ewe, eye and 91 more...
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Body bio- baby!
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Valuseless
Of low worth or little importance.
Unwanted matter by drusky is a nice, related list.trivial, cheap, inutile, ineffectual, dross, floccinaucinihili..., gimcrack, frippery, invalidated, drivel, otiose, tripe and 91 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DELIGHT
Words a dyslexic can't get wrong: Palindromes
retartrater, redivider, level, noon, rotor, civic, peep, eke, deed, tenet, reviver, hannah and 145 more...
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lester
sargasso, monolithic, idioms, nascent, sonances, arrhythmic, pap, dilettantish, fuzztone, effete, morass, waxed and 92 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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calvino
nasturtiums, calabrian, dahlia, bergamots, rose chafers, mesembryanthemun, kropotkin, aloes, ranunculus, pergola, majolica, tome and 17 more...
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Words for Nonsense, Blather, and Trash
tommyrot, poppycock, moonshine, codswallop, hogwash, balderdash, gobbledygook, malarkey, flapdoodle, bunkum, hooey, flimshaw and 30 more...
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