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pap

1

[ pap ]

noun

  1. soft food for infants or invalids, as bread soaked in water or milk.
  2. an idea, talk, book, or the like, lacking substance or real value.

    Synonyms: twaddle, balderdash, drivel



pap

2

[ pap ]

noun

, Chiefly Dialect.
  1. a teat; nipple.
  2. something resembling a teat or nipple.

pap

1

/ pæp /

noun

  1. dialect.
    a nipple or teat
    1. something resembling a breast or nipple, such as (formerly) one of a pair of rounded hilltops
    2. ( capital as part of a name )

      the Pap of Glencoe

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


pap

2

/ pæp /

noun

  1. any soft or semiliquid food, such as bread softened with milk, esp for babies or invalids; mash
  2. porridge made from maize
  3. worthless or oversimplified ideas; drivel

    intellectual pap

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

pap

3

/ pæp /

verb

  1. (of the paparazzi) to follow and photograph (a famous person)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pap1

1400–50; late Middle English; a nursery word akin to Dutch pap, German Pappe, Latin, Italian pappa

Origin of pap2

1150–1200; Middle English pappe; compare dialectal Norwegian, Swedish pappe, Latin papilla ( papilla ), Lithuanian pãpas, all from a base *pap- ; akin to pap 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pap1

C12: of Scandinavian origin, imitative of a sucking sound; compare Latin papilla nipple, Sanskrit pippalaka

Origin of pap2

C15: from Middle Low German pappe, via Medieval Latin from Latin pappāre to eat; compare Dutch pap, Italian pappa

Origin of pap3

C20: from paparazzo
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Example Sentences

So, when she asked for a pap and sexually transmitted infection screening, her nurse was confused.

Robyn was in her senior year of college in January 2008 when she found out she had an abnormal pap smear.

Six years later, she has had to monitor her health with regular pap smears and biopsies.

Erica was 22 when her doctor called her and said she had an abnormal pap smear.

There is, inevitably, a lot of self-serving humbug and a lot of tedious pap.

So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes.

I didn't want to go to school much before, but I reckoned I'd go now to spite pap.

I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections.

I got rid of the signs of my work, and dropped the blanket and hid my saw, and pretty soon pap come in.

Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more.

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