pap
Meanings
Plural: paps
Noun
- worthless or oversimplified ideas
- a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
- the small projection of a mammary gland
- Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- Pablum or nonsense.
- Porridge.
- A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
- Support from official patronage.
- The pulp of fruit.
- A female breast or nipple.
- A man's breast.
- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
- Clipping of paparazzo.
- Pa; father.
Verb
- To feed with pap.
- To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
- Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).
Adj
- Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
- Spineless, wet, without character.
- Flat.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, 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.
Synonyms
ayr, ba, baba, da, dad, dada, daddio, daddy, Father, father, fatherling, mamilla, mammilla, nipple, old man, pa, pablum, pap, papa, papaw, pappaw, pappy, Pappy, pater, patriarch, paw, pawpaw, peepaw, pepaw, pop, poppa, poppy, pops, sire, soft diet, spoon food, teat, tit
Scrabble Score: 7
pap is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpap is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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