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▪ I. bap Sc.|bæp|
[Etymol. unknown.]
A small loaf or ‘roll’ of bakers' bread, made of various sizes and shapes in different parts of Scotland.
1513–75Diurn. Occurr. (1833) 301 Bappis of nyne for xijd. 1724A. Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. I. 91 Sowens and farles and Baps. c1800Mrs. Lyon in Ramsay Remin. (1870) Introd. 13 Are ye for your burial baps round or square?
▸ slang (chiefly Brit. and Austral.). In pl. A woman's breasts.
1990Re: Bollocks (& More) in soc.culture.british (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Nov. And [slang words] for breasts... Tits. Boobs. Bristols. Baps. 1992Picture 5 Feb. 9 Pommy sheilas' baps are getting bigger and bigger and..soon the average girlie will sport enormous 38D-sized noras. 2006Sun (Nexis) 25 Apr. He ran his fingers over her nipples—and told her she had ‘lovely baps’.
▪ II. bap, n.2 S. Asian and Caribbean (chiefly Trinidad and Guyana).
Brit. |bɑːp|, U.S. |bɑp|
Forms: 18– bap, 19– baap
[‹ Hindi bāp ‹ Prakrit bappa.]
A father. Freq. with possessive adjective. Also as a respectful form of address to one's father or (in Caribbean use) any older man, esp. one of South Asian descent. Cf. mai n.2
1842M. M. Sherwood Last Days of Boosy 149 Your bap has good things hidden somewhere. 1953S. Selvon Cane is Bitter in Carib. Anthol. Short Stories 58 He got up and called to his two sons, ‘All you finish washing the males?’ ‘Yes, bap,’ Hari the elder shouted. 1991R. Mistry Such Long Journey (1992) 167 Not enough money for food or school uniforms, and baap goes and buys aeroplanes and fish tanks and bird cages! 2000G. Whelan Homeless Bird i. 1 My baap, like all fathers with a daughter to marry off, had to find a dowry for me. |