Pap

/pæp/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
2. (uncountable, colloquial) Pablum or nonsense.
3. (South Africa) Porridge.
4. (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
5. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
6. The pulp of fruit.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
8. (archaic) A female breast or nipple.

Example Sentences

Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.

Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.

Treasury pap

I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple.

A child's head is naturally as soft as the pap of an apple.

But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !

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 […]

they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps [translating tetins] and buttocks[…].

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• papping
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• most pap

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