English Explanatory Dictionary

pap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
  2. Pablum or nonsense.
  3. Porridge.
  4. A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
  5. Support from official patronage.
  6. The pulp of fruit.
verb
  1. To feed with pap.
noun
  1. A female breast or nipple.
  2. A man's breast.
  3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
adj
  1. Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
  2. Spineless, wet, without character.
  3. Flat.
noun
  1. Clipping of paparazzo.
verb
  1. To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
noun
  1. Pa; father.
verb
  1. Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).
name
  1. Initialism of People's Action Party.
  2. Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
  3. Initialism of People's Armed Police.
noun
  1. polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
  2. Initialism of password authentication protocol.
  3. Abbreviation of past active participle.
  4. Abbreviation of present active participle.
  5. Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
  6. Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase.
  7. Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
  8. Acronym of positive airway pressure.
  9. A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.
verb
  1. Post a picture.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of Pap smear.

Pronunciation

/pæp/ En-au-pap.ogg /pap/

Word forms

pap paps papping papped more pap most pap

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, Bulgarian 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 fatherling old man pa pap papa papa bear papaw pappaw pappy pater patriarch paw pawpaw peepaw pepaw pop poppa poppy pops sire Pap test

Derived words

pap boat papescent paplike pappy stywe pap CPAP BiPAP IPAP EPAP
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