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Definition pap
Etymology 1
Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian ????? (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian ??????/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. An (independent?) origin in imitative baby-talk, leading to constant reformation and renewal, is the best explanation in view of German Pappe (“pap, mush, porridge for children; sticky, mushy substance, paste, glue”), which fails to show the effects of the High German sound shift (no shifted form appears to be attested, making borrowing from Low German an unsatisfying explanation).
Noun
pap (plural paps)
- (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
- (South Africa) Porridge.
- (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
- The pulp of fruit.
Adjective
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
- (slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
Verb
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
- (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
Etymology 2
From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps form 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”).
Noun
pap (plural paps)
- (archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
- (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
Etymology 3
Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.
Noun
pap (plural paps)
- Pap smear
Etymology 4
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Adjective
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
- (South African slang) Flat.
Etymology 5
Clipping of paparazzo.
Noun
pap (plural paps)
- (informal) A paparazzo.
Verb
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
- (informal, usually passive) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
Etymology 6
Noun
pap (plural paps)
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