pap1

[pap] /pæp/
noun
1.
soft food for infants or invalids, as bread soaked in water or milk.
2.
an idea, talk, book, or the like, lacking substance or real value.
Origin
1400-50; late Middle English; a nursery word akin to Dutch pap, German Pappe, Latin, Italian pappa
Related forms
paplike, adjective
Synonyms
2. drivel, balderdash, twaddle.

pap2

[pap] /pæp/
noun, Chiefly Dialect
1.
a teat; nipple.
2.
something resembling a teat or nipple.
Origin
1150-1200; Middle English pappe; compare dialectal Norwegian, Swedish pappe, Latin papilla (see papilla), Lithuanian pãpas, all from a base *pap-; akin to pap1
Examples from the web for pap
  • What a bunch of modern-day, super-politically-correct pap.
  • Such narrative pap was poisoning future students' minds, they moaned, making later study of real history more difficult.
  • Everyone needs a budget for useless pseudoscientific pap.
  • In any event a degree of moderation of this resource is needed to deter both trolls and those who persist in posting pap.
  • But second, your makers actually announced a respectable design philosophy at odds with the usual luxury gadget pap.
  • But pap smears allow precancerous lesions to be treated before they become cancerous.
  • They are smoking less and taking more preventive tests such as mammograms and pap smears.
  • pap smears effectively spot such changes, but they must be done regularly.
  • Depending upon your spiritual outlook, this statement is either a profound truth or sentimental pap.
British Dictionary definitions for pap

pap1

/pæp/
noun
1.
any soft or semiliquid food, such as bread softened with milk, esp for babies or invalids; mash
2.
(South African) porridge made from maize
3.
worthless or oversimplified ideas; drivel: intellectual pap
Word Origin
C15: from Middle Low German pappe, via Medieval Latin from Latin pappāre to eat; compare Dutch pap, Italian pappa

pap2

/pæp/
noun
1.
(Scot & Northern English, dialect) a nipple or teat
2.
  1. something resembling a breast or nipple, such as (formerly) one of a pair of rounded hilltops
  2. (capital as part of a name): the Pap of Glencoe
Word Origin
C12: of Scandinavian origin, imitative of a sucking sound; compare Latin papilla nipple, Sanskrit pippalaka

pap3

/pæp/
verb (transitive) paps, papping, papped
1.
(of the paparazzi) to follow and photograph (a famous person)
Word Origin
C20: from paparazzo
Word Origin and History for pap
n.

"soft food for infants," late 14c., from Old French pape "watered gruel," from Latin pappa, a widespread word in children's language for "food" (e.g. Middle High German and Dutch pap, German Pappe, Spanish, Portuguese papa, Italian pappa), imitative of an infant's noise when hungry; possibly associated with pap (n.2). Meaning "over-simplified idea" first recorded 1540s.

"nipple of a woman's breast," c.1200, first attested in Northern and Midlands writing, probably from a Scandinavian source (not recorded in Old Norse, but cf. dialectal Swedish pappe), from PIE imitative root *pap- "to swell" (cf. Latin papilla "nipple," papula "a swelling, pimple;" Lithuanian papas "nipple").

"older man," 1844, shortening of papa.

pap in Medicine

pap (pāp)
n.
Soft or semiliquid food, as for infants.

Slang definitions & phrases for pap

pap

noun

Father; pappy (1844+)


pap in Technology


1. Password Authentication Protocol.
2. Printer Access Protocol.
(1996-03-23)

Related Abbreviations for pap

Pap

  1. Papanicolao smear
  2. Papanicolao test

PAP

  1. Password Authentication Protocol
  2. peroxidase antiperoxidase complex
  3. pulmonary artery pressure