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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

... imprisoned. However this helped to alleviate her dreary seclusion from the world as he occasionally dropped fragments of news as to what was going on outside, and he got her books through the prison library that were not evangelical pap. ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... Alick tied tight to her apron-strings, feeding him on moral pap, putting his mind into petticoats, and seeking to make him more of a woman than a man, Mrs. Corfield had defeated her design and destroyed her own influence. During his early growth the boy had yielded to her without revolt, because he was ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various

... small, mingle your Sugar and flower together, put it into your Cream, take the yolk of an Egg, beat it with a spoonfull or two of Rose-water, then put it to the Cream, and stir all these together, and set it over a quick fire, keeping it continually stirring till it be as thick as water-pap. ...

— The Compleat Cook • Anonymous, given as "W. M."

... hotly at the gate before you. Then I introduced myself. I had one more bad moment when the rival claimant to my name and title intruded into the room. But fortune favours the brave: your utter ignorance of German saved me. The rest was pap. It went ...

— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen

... these representations find expression in the popular name papo given to women's genital organs. 'Papo' is the crop of birds, and is derived from 'papar' (Latin, papare), to eat soft food such as we call pap. With this representation of infantile food is connected the term leche [milk] as applied to the ejaculated genital fluid." Cleland, it may be added, in the most remarkable of English erotic novels, The Memoirs of Fanny Hill, refers to ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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