nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit
(noun) the small projection of a mammary gland
pap, pablum
(noun) worthless or oversimplified ideas
Source: WordNet® 3.1
PAP
(Singapore) Initialism of People's Action Party.
(Singapore, Singlish, derogatory) Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
(PRC) Initialism of People's Armed Police.
PAP (plural PAPs)
(organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
(grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
(grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
(philosophy) principle of alternate possibilities
participatory anthropic principle
(medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure. (PAP ventilation)
(by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device
(positive airway pressure)
• NIV (“non-invasive ventilation”)
• NPPV (“non-invasive positive pressure ventilation”)
• NIPPV (“non-invasive positive pressure ventilation”)
• PPV (“positive pressure ventilation”)
(positive airway pressure)
• CPAP (“continuous positive airway pressure”)
• BiPAP (“bilevel positive airway pressure”)
• IPAP (“inhalation positive airway pressure”)
• EPAP (“exhalation positive airway pressure”)
• APP, App, PPA, app, app.
pap (plural paps)
(uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
(uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
(South Africa) Porridge.
(informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
The pulp of fruit.
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
(slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
(transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
pap (plural paps)
(archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
(now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.
pap (plural paps)
Pap smear
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
(South African slang) Flat.
pap (plural paps)
(informal) A paparazzo.
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
(informal, usually, in the passive) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
pap (plural paps)
(informal) pa; father
• APP, App, PPA, app, app.
Source: Wiktionary
Pap, n. Etym: [Cf. OSw. papp. Cf. Pap soft food.]
1. (Anat.)
Definition: A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. Dryden. The paps which thou hast sucked. Luke xi. 27.
2. A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon. Macaulay.
Pap, n. Etym: [Cf. D. pap, G. pappe, both perh. fr. L. papa, pappa, the word with which infants call for food: cf. It. pappa.]
1. A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.
2. Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap. [Colloq. & Contemptuous]
3. The pulp of fruit. Ainsworth.
Pap, v. t.
Definition: To feed with pap. Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 April 2024
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
