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PAP
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
Proper noun
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.
Noun
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
Hypernyms
(positive airway pressure)
• NIV (ānon-invasive ventilationā)
• NPPV (ānon-invasive positive pressure ventilationā)
• NIPPV (ānon-invasive positive pressure ventilationā)
• PPV (āpositive pressure ventilationā)
Hyponyms
(positive airway pressure)
• CPAP (ācontinuous positive airway pressureā)
• BiPAP (ābilevel positive airway pressureā)
• IPAP (āinhalation positive airway pressureā)
• EPAP (āexhalation positive airway pressureā)
Anagrams
• APP, App, PPA, app, app.
Etymology 1
Noun
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.
Adjective
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
(slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
Verb
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
(transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
Etymology 2
Noun
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.
Etymology 3
Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.
Noun
pap (plural paps)
Pap smear
Etymology 4
Adjective
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
(South African slang) Flat.
Etymology 5
Noun
pap (plural paps)
(informal) A paparazzo.
Verb
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.
Etymology 6
Noun
pap (plural paps)
(informal) pa; father
Anagrams
• 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
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