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Pamp

//ˈpæmp// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of pamper (“a diaper”). abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
  2. 2
    Initialism of pathogen-associated molecular pattern. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Verb
  1. 1
    To pamper. archaic, transitive
  2. 2
    To put someone in a pamper (a diaper). informal, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pampōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pampōn, from Proto-Germanic *pampōną (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with West Frisian pampe (“to stuff, cram”), Dutch pampen (“to cram”), German Low German pampen (“to crush, pound, stuff oneself”), German bampfen, pampen, pampfen (“to cram, gobble, eat greedily”), Norwegian Nynorsk pampa (“to stuff oneself, cram”), Swedish pampen (“stuffed, swollen up”). Compare also Saterland Frisian pämpelje (“to nurture, care for, feed”), West Frisian pampelje (“to pamper”), Dutch pampelen, pamperen (“to cram, pamper”).

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