pap
1soft food for infants or invalids, as bread soaked in water or milk.
an idea, talk, book, or the like, lacking substance or real value.
Origin of pap
1Other words for pap
Other words from pap
- paplike, adjective
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Other definitions for pap (2 of 2)
a teat; nipple.
something resembling a teat or nipple.
Origin of pap
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How to use pap in a sentence
I just went to the doctor whenever I got sick or injured or needed a pap smear, and I received care.
I Learned the Hard Way Just How Barbaric American Health Care Is | Deborah Copaken | August 5, 2022 | The Daily BeastAlas, the pap prevailed, but with its smallest-ever majority.
Independent pollsters found Singh’s call to deny the pap a “blank check” drew most support from voters under the age of 30 ahead of the election.
While victory went to the pap, its popular vote fell by nearly 9 percent to 61 percent.
Chan suggests that the Workers’ Party will need to cultivate the image of a credible and responsible party even more than the pap has built if it wants greater electoral success.
So, when she asked for a pap and sexually transmitted infection screening, her nurse was confused.
Coming Out Kinky to Your Doctor, in Black and Blue | Heather Boerner | October 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRobyn 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.
South Africa Kicks Off Week Of Mourning Mandela | Mark Gevisser | December 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSo I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)I didn't want to go to school much before, but I reckoned I'd go now to spite pap.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)I got rid of the signs of my work, and dropped the blanket and hid my saw, and pretty soon pap come in.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
British Dictionary definitions for pap (1 of 3)
/ (pæp) /
any soft or semiliquid food, such as bread softened with milk, esp for babies or invalids; mash
Southern African porridge made from maize
worthless or oversimplified ideas; drivel: intellectual pap
Origin of pap
1British Dictionary definitions for pap (2 of 3)
/ (pæp) /
Scot and Northern English dialect a nipple or teat
something resembling a breast or nipple, such as (formerly) one of a pair of rounded hilltops
(capital as part of a name): the Pap of Glencoe
Origin of pap
2British Dictionary definitions for pap (3 of 3)
/ (pæp) informal /
(of the paparazzi) to follow and photograph (a famous person)
Origin of pap
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