单词 | pap-feed |
释义 | pap-feedv. transitive. To feed with pap or semi-liquid food suitable for babies or invalids. Chiefly in passive. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food diet1362 put1620 gruel1804 pap-feed1809 chicken-broth1856 soup1857 1809 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 15 872 This measure has been..nursed and dandled, rocked, swathed, and pap-fed by..whom? 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. i. 31/1 Adam and Eve, who led thee into Life, and for a time suckled and pap-fed thee there. 1898 Argosy Apr. 48 But I are not to be pap fed all my days. 1995 Hist. Today (Nexis) May 47 They had to turn Germany, their pensioner whom they were pap-feeding with school meals and CARE (Co-operative for American Remittances to Europe..) parcels into a country capable of fending for itself. 1999 Jrnl. Canad. Stud. (Nexis) Sept. 211 It is like the child who has passed the weaning stage. If you try to keep him pap fed from then on, he will sicken and deteriorate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1809 |
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