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Pap
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- 1 Weak, feeble; lacking substance. South-Africa, slang
"His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap. I could easily hit him. I could kill him if I wanted to."
- 2 Spineless, wet, without character. South-Africa, slang
"He is so pap and boring."
- 3 Flat. South-Africa, slang
"I got a puncture and the wheel went pap."
- 1 Initialism of People's Action Party. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"@Gary, are you a PAP agent? ... =) trying to incite rebellion and revolution on this site so that the govt will have an excuse to take down this site?"
- 2 Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party) Singlish, derogatory
- 3 Initialism of People's Armed Police. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. uncountable
"Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water."
- 2 A female breast or nipple. archaic
"But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd […]"
- 3 Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”). alt-of
- 4 Clipping of paparazzo. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
"As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way."
- 5 Pa; father. informal
"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. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all."
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- 6 polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
- 7 Ellipsis of Pap smear. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"If you have any abnormal symptoms, such as spotting between periods or bleeding after intercourse, keep pursuing the cause even if your last Pap was normal."
- 8 the small projection of a mammary gland wordnet
- 9 Pablum or nonsense. colloquial, uncountable
- 10 A man's breast. archaic
"Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap, that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him."
- 11 Initialism of password authentication protocol. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 12 worthless or oversimplified ideas wordnet
- 13 Porridge. South-Africa, countable, uncountable
"Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai."
- 14 A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
"the paps of Jura"
- 15 Abbreviation of past active participle. abbreviation, alt-of
- 16 a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders wordnet
- 17 A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet Africa, Nigeria, West, countable, uncountable
- 18 Abbreviation of present active participle. abbreviation, alt-of
- 19 Support from official patronage. countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable
"Treasury pap"
- 20 Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 21 The pulp of fruit. countable, uncountable
"I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple."
- 22 Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 23 Initialism of participatory anthropic principle. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 24 Acronym of positive airway pressure. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 25 Acronym of positive airway pressure.; A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device. broadly
- 1 To feed with pap. obsolete, transitive
"But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !"
- 2 To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent. informal
"Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!"
- 3 Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”). Internet, alt-of
- 4 Post a picture. Internet, abbreviation, acronym
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 probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.
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 probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.
From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from 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”).
Ellipsis of Pap smear.
From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”). Cognate with etymology 1.
Clipping of paparazzo.
Clipping of paparazzo.
Compare pa, papa, pop.
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