pap

See also PAP

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (“to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct.

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 and wors is traditionally eaten at a braai.

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

Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

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

Translations

soft food

Finnish: mössö (fi) German: Brei (de) m.

Italian: pappa (it) f.

(colloquial) nonsense

Finnish: potaska (fi), lööperi (fi)

Etymology 2

From Middle English pappe (circa 12th century, “nipple”), of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”). Related to Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”). See also Latin papilla (“nipple”).

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (archaic) Female breast.
   • 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, 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 [tr. tetins] and buttocks [...].

Translations

female breast

Finnish: tissi (fi), tisu (fi)

Scottish Gaelic: cìoch (gd) f.

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

Verb

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

1. (usually in the 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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑp

Noun

pap m. (uncountable, diminutive papje)

1. porridge

Derived terms

• gortepap

Verb

pap

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop, “priest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɒp/

Noun

pap (plural papok)

1. priest

Declension

declension of pap 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

possessives of pap possessor singular possession plural possession 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 terms

• papol
• papság

Compound words

• főpap
• papnő