Pap

Word PAP
Character 3
Hyphenation pap
Pronunciations /pæp/

Definitions and meanings of "Pap"

What do we mean by pap?

Soft or semiliquid food, as for infants. noun

Material lacking real value or substance. noun

Money and favors obtained as political patronage. noun

A teat or nipple. noun

Something resembling a teat or nipple, such as a steep hill. noun

A teat; a nipple; the breast of a woman. noun

A conical hill resembling a nipple or teat: as, the Paps of Jura (an island west of Scotland.). noun

Papa; father. noun

Soft food for infants, usually made of bread boiled or softened with water or milk. noun

Hence The emoluments of public office, as salaries, fees, or perquisites. noun

The pulp of fruit, or pulp of any kind. noun

To feed with pap.

A short cylindrical projection used to furnish a hold for the lathe-center on a easting which is to be turned; a socket; a tit. noun

A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. noun

A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon. noun

A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softened in milk or water. noun

Any speech, writing, or idea lacking substance, or of trivial content; oversimplified, trite, or worthless ideas. noun

Nourishment or support from official patronage. noun

The pulp of fruit. noun

To feed with pap. transitive verb

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

Nonsense.

Porridge.

Support from official patronage.

The pulp of fruit.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pap

The word "pap" in example sentences

This curious concoction of meaningless pap is heartening, in that it reinforces my conviction that those who like to trumpet their freedom from religion are themselves slaves to ignorance and irrationality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This was, we were told, because the staple food, pap, is almost 100 percent carbs, which men can apparently digest or burn more quickly than women. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The man in the road was "pap" -- tight -- and they were trying to get him home. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Apparently pap as in pap smear is unrelated: it’s short for Georgios Papanikolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

New guidelines out today for cervical cancer screenings also know as pap test. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each month after she received her pension, Gogo bought them a large bag of finely ground white cornmeal, called mealie meal, which was cooked into a stiff porridge called pap. ❋ Nicole Itano (2007)

Zack knows about the so-called pap just as he knows where my tattoo was. ❋ E.L. Konigsborg (1993)

The earliest specimens simply bear the pope's name on one side and the word papæ on the other. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"Dominie Graves were in the witness-box, and said as how yer pap were a wicked daddy of a wickeder gal, and the jedge made him tell as how ye was so cussed, and yer daddy's humps riz up like a cat's back wet with cold tea." ❋ Grace Miller White (1912)

In _infancy_ the most frequent cause of scrofula is the premature giving of _farinaceous_ food besides the mother's milk, or the feeding of children with so-called pap, especially when this is done in the _first month of their life_. ❋ Max Birnbaum (1876)

"His pap was a bit sour p'raps when he was young, eh, Master Syd?" ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"That's my pap, that is," said Lenwilla Ellawea, addressing a second young lady, who was slowly turning the leaves of a photograph album. ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

When the pap is the consistency of oatmeal, it's ready to be served for breakfast with sugar, or for supper alongside morogo - wild greens - or tripe stew. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A traditional Bantu porridge called pap, similar to grits or polenta, is a popular side dish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I know that composers of what ASCAP somewhat euphemistically calls "Concert Music" make up a comparatively small part of their membership, but if they and BMI were really serious about supporting all their composers, artists, and publishers, they'd be using some of their clout to make sure that the Internet, the best distribution channel to happen to new and avant-garde music in a hundred years, isn't scorched into an arid wasteland of major-label pap by industry organizations who will go after anyone broadcasting your music whether you want them to or not. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

Grenier was not the first celebrity caught off guard by, and even horrified at, the sight of a child paparazzo ( "pap," as Austin calls himself) working outside a Hollywood nightclub. ❋ Hank Stuever (2010)

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