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  1. noun Midland U.S. A teat or nipple.
  2. noun Something resembling a nipple.
  3. noun Soft or semiliquid food, as for infants.
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  1. Middle English pappe, probably from Latin papilla; see papilla.
  2. Middle English, from Old French papa, from Latin, children's word for food.

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  1. from Middle English pappe, from Old Swedish papp, Swedish dial. papp, pappe, Swedish patt = Danish Patte = NFires. pap, pape, diminutive,papke, breast, pap; cf. Lithuanian päpas, pap. The L. papilla, pap, nipple, teat, also pustule, pimple, is a diminutive of papula, a pustule, pimple (see papilla, papula, pimple), and is not related to English pap. The word is supposed to be ult. of infantile origin, like pap and pap, papa.
  2. from Middle English *pap, *pappe (in comp. papmete: see papmeat) = Dutch pap = German pappe, pap, paste, = Danish Pap = Swedish papp, pasteboard; cf. Old French papa = Spanish Papa = Italian Pappa, pap; also Old French papin, pappin, masculine, papine, feminine, pap; from Latin papa, pappa, a word with which infants call for food; supposed to be imitative of the orig insignificant syllables pa pa, a natural utterance of infants, taken in this instance to refer to food, and in others to other notions: see pap, pap, papa, etc.
  3. from pap, n.
  4. A shorter form of papa.
 

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