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pap¹
- /pæp/
Rhymes with -æp
Where it comes from
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.
noun paps
- Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
- Pablum or nonsense.
- Porridge. Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
- A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
- Support from official patronage. Treasury pap
- The pulp of fruit. I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple.
verb paps · papping · papped
- To feed with pap. But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !
pap²
- /pæp/
Rhymes with -æp
Where it comes from
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”).
noun paps
- A female breast or nipple. 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 […]
- A man's breast. 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.
- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak. the paps of Jura
pap³
- /pæp/
Rhymes with -æp
Where it comes from
Ellipsis of Pap smear.
noun paps
- Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
pap⁴
- /pap/ General South African
- /pæp/
Rhymes with -æp
Where it comes from
From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”). Cognate with etymology 1.
adjective more pap · most pap
- Weak, feeble; lacking substance. 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.
- Spineless, wet, without character. He is so pap and boring.
- Flat. I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
pap⁵
- /pæp/
Rhymes with -æp
Where it comes from
Clipping of paparazzo.
noun paps
- Clipping of paparazzo 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.
verb paps · papping · papped
- To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent. Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!
pap⁶
- /pæp/
Rhymes with -æp
Where it comes from
Compare pa, papa, pop.
noun paps
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Pa; father.
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 t
Similar: ayr, ba, baba, da, dad, dada, daddio, daddy, father, Father, fatherling, governor
pap⁷
- /pæp/
Rhymes with -æp
verb paps · papping · papped
- Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).
PAP⁸
proper noun
- Initialism of People's Action Party @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?
- Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
- Initialism of People's Armed Police
noun PAPs
- polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
- Initialism of password authentication protocol
- Abbreviation of past active participle
- Abbreviation of present active participle
- Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities
- Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase
- Initialism of participatory anthropic principle
- Acronym of positive airway pressure
- A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.
verb pap
- Post a picture.
Pap⁹
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: teat, nipple, mamilla, mammilla, tit, pablum, soft diet, spoon food, fap, mush, smear, chod, plp, tie, psp, lamp
Translations
Talk about this word "pap." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pap. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pap. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pap "pap." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pap.Cite this
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title = {pap},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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