pap-spoon

“We do not deny the statement of the devil as to what he calls the assault committed upon him; but the fact is, the editor was not in his own study, but was "taking his turn" at the pap-spoon of the Duke of”

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841

“Such children, then,' said he, 'as are brought up by hand, must needs be indebted for similar sensations to a very different object; and yet, I believe, no man has ever felt any intense emotions of amatory delight at beholding a pap-spoon.”

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832

“Cornwall has appointed Lord Glengall pap-spoon in waiting to his Royal”

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841

“The Heir Apparent to the English throne has, we are told, been lately subjected to this frightful vicissitude; and though his Royal Highness is said to have borne it tolerably well, it will appear that while he took to the pap-spoon with princely fortitude, there was something of the infant perceptible in his mode of first receiving it.”

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857

“Am I to be flouted thus by a piece of pink-and-whiteness just escaped from the nursery pap-spoon?”

A Woman Named Smith

“The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and pap-spoon, swallowing pills and herb tea.”

Emerson and Other Essays

“On the third day of my existence, having been starved out of my resistance to the pap-spoon, I was consigned to the care of nurse Nightly, who with a sick and helpless daughter lived in an obscure part of the town.”

The Unexpected Legacy