Luxembourgish

Noun

Pap m ‎(uncountable)

1. paste; an adhesive paste

English

Noun

pap ‎(plural paps)

1. (uncountable) 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.

2. (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
3. (South Africa) Porridge.

   Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.

4. (informal, derogatory) support from official patronage

   Treasury pap

5. The pulp of fruit.

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Translations

Adjective

pap ‎(comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

1. (slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
   • He is so pap and boring.

Translations

Verb

pap ‎(third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.

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Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps form 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

pap ‎(plural paps)

1. (now archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
   • Bible, Luke xi. 27

     the paps which thou hast sucked

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     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 […].

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

     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 [transl. tetins] and buttocks […].

2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.13:

     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.

3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.

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Translations

Etymology 3

Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.

Noun

pap ‎(plural paps)

1. Pap smear

Etymology 4

Adjective

pap ‎(comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

1. (South African slang) Flat.

   I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

Etymology 5

From paparazzo.

Noun

pap ‎(plural paps)

1. (informal) A paparazzo.
   • 2015, "Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments", OK! Magazine:

     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.

   • 2015, Mira Bailee, Broken Strings

     We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.

Verb

pap ‎(third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

1. (informal, usually passive) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.

   Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!

Anagrams

• app , App

Aromanian

Noun

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj)

1. grandfather
2. ancestor, forefather
3. old man

Synonyms

• (grandfather): ghiush, tot
• (old man): mosh, aush, bitãrnu

See also

• babã
• omã

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑp

Noun

pap m ‎(plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

1. mush
2. porridge

Derived terms

• gortepap

Verb

pap

1. first-person singular present indicative of pappen
2. imperative of pappen

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп ‎(pop, “priest”), or from Romanian popă ^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒp]

Noun

pap ‎(plural papok)

1. priest

Declension

Derived terms

• papi
• papol
• papos
• papság

(Compound words):

• főpap
• paplak
• papnő

References

1. ↑ 'popă' in August Scriban, 'Dicționaru limbii românești', Editura Institutului de Arte Grafice „Presa Bună”, Bucharest, 1939

Lojban

Rafsi

pap

1. rafsi of panpi.

Pohnpeian

Verb

pap

1. to swim