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pap1 n 1. any soft or semiliquid food, such as bread softened with milk, esp for babies or invalids; mash 2. (Cookery) South African porridge made from maize 3. worthless or oversimplified ideas; drivel intellectual pap [from Middle Low German pappe, via Medieval Latin from Latin pappāre to eat; compare Dutch pap, Italian pappa] pap2 n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Scot and northern English dialect a nipple or teat 2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a. something resembling a breast or nipple, such as (formerly) one of a pair of rounded hilltops b. (capital as part of a name) the Pap of Glencoe [of Scandinavian origin, imitative of a sucking sound; compare Latin papilla nipple, Sanskrit pippalaka] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
pap Translations pap n (= food) → Brei m pap [pæp] n (pej) (drivel) → stupidaggini fpl; (food) → pappa pap [pæp] n (pej) (drivel) → stupidaggini fpl; (food) → pappa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes. He now gave Mrs Deborah positive orders to take the child to her own bed, and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and other things, against it waked. "Try that bone on another dog," said the landlord; "as if I did not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don't think to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool. |
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