pap

UK /pæp/ US /pæp/
noun 17verb 4adj 3name 3

Definitions

noun

1

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

Pablum or nonsense.

3

Porridge.

Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.

4

A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet

5

Support from official patronage.

Treasury pap

verb

1

To feed with pap.

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

noun

1

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 […]

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[…].

2

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.

3

A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.

the paps of Jura

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