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Pap   /pæp/   Listen
noun
Pap  n.  
1.
(Anat.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. "The paps which thou hast sucked."
2.
A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.


Pap  n.  
1.
A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softened in milk or water.
2.
Hence: Any speech, writing, or idea lacking substance, or of trivial content; oversimplified, trite, or worthless ideas.
Synonyms: pablum, drivel, twaddle.
3.
Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap. (Colloq. & Contemptuous)
4.
The pulp of fruit.


verb
Pap  v. t.  To feed with pap.





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"Pap" Quotes from Famous Books



... Well, go thy wayes, I'le trust thee through the world, Deal how thou wilt: that that I never feel, I'le never fear. Yet by the honour of a Souldier, I hold thee truly noble: How these things will look, And how their blood will curdle! Play on Children, You shall have pap anon. O thou grand Fool, That thou knew'st but thy ...
— The Little French Lawyer - A Comedy • Francis Beaumont
... people's relations!" cried Peggy brutally; "especially their sick relations. I couldn't run every evening to pet Maria Jones and feed her pap." ...
— Old Kaskaskia • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... Trust became father and mother to the Seagrave children; and Mr. Tappan as dry nurse prescribed the brand of intellectual pap for them and decided in what ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... fiue, sixe, or seuen hundred graines, within a few more or lesse. Of these graines, besides bread, the inhabitants make victuall, either by parching them, or seething them whole vntill they be broken: or boiling the flowre with water into a pap. ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt
... other, and the body politic, cursed though it be with bad officials, has more vitality in it than could be excited by any conclave of excellent men with one idea, meeting, however, solemnly, to feed it with legislative pap. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various


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