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pap

Pronunciation: /pæp/

The English word “pap” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
  2. Pablum or nonsense.
  3. Porridge.
  4. A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
  5. Support from official patronage.
  6. The pulp of fruit.
  7. A female breast or nipple.
  8. A man's breast.
  9. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
  10. Pa; father.

verb

  1. To feed with pap.
  2. To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.

adjective

  1. Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
  2. Spineless, wet, without character.
  3. Flat.

Etymology

From 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…

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