pap
Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young…Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
» The magazine was filled with banal pap.
Meaning
10 senses(uncountable)Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
Brei
пюре́pjuré
(colloquial, uncountable)Pablum or nonsense.
(South Africa, countable, uncountable)Porridge.
Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
(Africa, Nigeria, West, countable, uncountable)A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
(countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable)Support from official patronage.
Treasury pap
(countable, uncountable)The pulp of fruit.
A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
(informal)Pa; father.
(archaic)A female breast or nipple.
(archaic)A man's breast.
- worthless or oversimplified ideas
- a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
- the small projection of a mammary gland
Examples
4 sentencesThe magazine was filled with banal pap.
Before our baby could eat solid food, we fed her pap.
I'd like to have a Pap smear done.
A Pap test can help detect cervical cancer early on.
deEin Pap-Abstrich kann zur frühzeitigen Erkennung des Gebärmutterhalskrebses beitragen.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“papFrom Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.
From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”).
Compare pa, papa, pop.
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Forms
plural: papsSynonyms
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