pap

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.2 Adjective 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Adjective 1.6 Etymology 5 1.6.1 Verb 1.7 Anagrams 2 Hungarian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Declension 2.3.2 Derived terms

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /pæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

[edit] Etymology 1

Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, Old French papa/pape, and Latin pappa, among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct.

[edit] 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 African) porridge.

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pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

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

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[edit] Etymology 2

Circa 12th century, possibly from an Old Norse source, but no possible etymons are recorded until much later. See also Latin papilla (“‘nipple’”).

[edit] Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (archaic) Female breast.
   • 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 [...].

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[edit] Etymology 3

Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.

[edit] Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. Pap smear

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pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

1. (South African slang): Flat
   • I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

[edit] Etymology 5

From paparazzo

[edit] Verb

to 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!

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of app , App

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

From a Slavonic language, compare pop.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɒp/

[edit] Noun

pap (plural papok)

1. priest

[edit] 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

[edit] Derived terms

• papnő