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pamp¹

  • /ˈpæmp/

Rhymes with -æmp

Where it comes from

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”).

verb pamps · pamping · pamped

  1. archaic, transitive To pamper.

pamp²

  • /ˈpæmp/

Rhymes with -æmp

noun pamps

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of pamper (“a diaper”).

    Similar: pampie, pamps, diap, diapee, diapy, diapie, didee, didie, diddy, didy, dipe, hippins

verb pamps · pamping · pamped

  1. informal, transitive To put someone in a pamper (a diaper).

PAMP³

noun PAMPs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of pathogen-associated molecular pattern

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@misc{pamp_2026,
  title = {pamp},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pamp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}