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noun

Pap n.

(Anat.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. "The paps which thou hast sucked."

A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.

Pap n.

A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softened in milk or water.

Hence: Any speech, writing, or idea lacking substance, or of trivial content; oversimplified, trite, or worthless ideas.

Synonyms: pablum, drivel, twaddle.

Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap. (Colloq. & Contemptuous)

The pulp of fruit.

verb

Pap v. t. To feed with pap.

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Etymology of 'Pap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pap" Quotes from Famous Books

... a greater soul than Shaughnessy to be cynical about C.P.R. It often needed his latent Irish humour to appreciate the larger cynicism which it expressed concerning the country. The pap-fed infants of Mackenzie and Hays served but to illustrate by contrast the perfection and the well-oiled technique of the dynamo operated by Shaughnessy. It became an obsession with him, as it did with Flavelle over a commercial ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... sentensed and decreed, that the Election of the aforesaid Magestrats shall be on this manner: euery p'rson p'rsent and quallified for choyse shall bring in (to the p'rsons deputed to receaue them) one single pap'r w'th the name of him written in yet whom he desires to haue Gouernour, and he that hath the greatest number of papers shall be Gouernor for that yeare. And the rest of the Magestrats or publike Officers to be chosen in this manner: The Secretary for the tyme being shall ...

— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske

... which I have quoted above was headed "Popular Pap" and formed a kind of frame for a photograph of Mr. Poppington, which seemed to show that his luncheon at the Bitz had not really agreed with him after all, and at the bottom of the column I noted the familiar signature of "Marchand ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 3rd, 1920 • Various

... idea very happily. 'Such children, then,' said he, 'as are brought up by hand, must needs be indebted for similar sensations to a very different object; and yet, I believe, no man has ever felt any intense emotions of amatory delight at beholding a pap-spoon.' ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 19, No. 536, Saturday, March 3, 1832. • Various

... custom of starting the day with an amount of regular food called collectively a breakfast. This, of course, does not mean what the dweller in the city by the seaboard calls a breakfast, he knowing no better, poor wretch—a swallow of tea, a bite of a cold baker's roll, a plate of gruel mayhap, or pap, and a sticky spoonful of the national marmalade of Perfidious Albumen, as the poet has called it, followed by a slap at the lower part of the face with a napkin and a series of V-shaped hiccoughs ensuing all the morning. ...

— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

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