pap

pap ¹  (pp)

n.

1. Midland U.S. A teat or nipple.

2. Something resembling a nipple.

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[Middle English pappe, probably from Latin papilla; see papilla.]

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pap ²  (pp)

n.

1. Soft or semiliquid food, as for infants.

2. Material lacking real value or substance: TV shows that offer nothing but pap.

3. Slang Money and favors obtained as political patronage: "self-seeking politicians primarily interested in patronage, privilege, and pap" (Fiorello H. La Guardia).

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[Middle English, from Old French papa, from Latin, children's word for food.]

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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]

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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]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pap - worthless or oversimplified ideas pablum drivel, garbage - a worthless message
	2.	pap - a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders soft diet, spoon food diet - a prescribed selection of foods Pablum - a soft form of cereal for infants
	3.	pap - the small projection of a mammary gland mamilla, mammilla, nipple, teat, tit reproductive organ, sex organ - any organ involved in sexual reproduction mammary gland, mamma - milk-secreting organ of female mammals

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pap

noun rubbish, trash, trivia, drivel All that radio station plays is commercial pap.

Translations

pap [pæp] N (Culin) → papilla f, gachas fpl (fig) (pej) → bazofia f

pap

n (= food) → Brei m

pap [pæp] n (pej) (drivel) → stupidaggini fpl; (food) → pappa

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pap [pæp] n (pej) (drivel) → stupidaggini fpl; (food) → pappa