pap
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, 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. An (independent?) origin in imitative baby-talk, leading to constant reformation and renewal, is the best explanation in view of German Pappe (“pap, mush, porridge for children; sticky, mushy substance, paste, glue”), which fails to show the effects of the High German sound shift (no shifted form appears to be attested, making borrowing from Low German an unsatisfying explanation).
NounEdit
pap (plural paps)
- (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.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
- (South Africa) Porridge.
- (informal, derogatory) support from official patronage
- Treasury pap
- The pulp of fruit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
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AdjectiveEdit
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
- (slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
- He is so pap and boring.
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VerbEdit
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
- (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
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”).
NounEdit
pap (plural paps)
- (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 […].
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1603, John Florio, transl.; 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 […].
- Bible, Luke xi. 27
- (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
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1603, John Florio, transl.; 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.
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- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Macaulay to this entry?)
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.
NounEdit
pap (plural paps)
Etymology 4Edit
AdjectiveEdit
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
- (South African slang) Flat.
- I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
Etymology 5Edit
From paparazzo.
NounEdit
pap (plural paps)
- (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.
- 2015, "Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments", OK! Magazine:
VerbEdit
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
- (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!
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
DanishEdit
NounEdit
pap
DeclensionEdit
| neuter gender |
Singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | pap | pappet |
| genitive | paps | pappets |
DutchEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop, “priest”), or from Romanian popă [1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pap (plural papok)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | pap | papok |
| accusative | papot | papokat |
| dative | papnak | papoknak |
| instrumental | pappal | papokkal |
| causal-final | papért | papokért |
| translative | pappá | papokká |
| terminative | papig | papokig |
| essive-formal | papként | papokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | papban | papokban |
| superessive | papon | papokon |
| adessive | papnál | papoknál |
| illative | papba | papokba |
| sublative | papra | papokra |
| allative | paphoz | papokhoz |
| elative | papból | papokból |
| delative | papról | papokról |
| ablative | paptól | papoktól |
| Possessive forms of pap | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | papom | papjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | papod | papjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | papja | papjai |
| 1st person plural | papunk | papjaink |
| 2nd person plural | papotok | papjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | papjuk | papjaik |
Derived termsEdit
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