Noun: pap
Sample Sentences
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Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
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Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
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Treasury pap
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I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple. [1633, James Hart, The Diet of the Diseased:]
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A child's head is naturally as soft as the pap of an apple. [1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XVI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 72:]
Nouns inflected like pap
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), 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. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk. See: Middle English Nouns '
pap', Dutch Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "pap"
Latin Nouns
papa, Danish Nouns
pap.