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单词 pap
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pap1

/pap /
noun [mass noun]
1Bland soft or semi-liquid food such as that suitable for babies or invalids: a trayful of tasteless pap...
  • Babies are breast-fed on demand, often for well over a year, although solid foods, usually rice pap, may be introduced at a young age.
  • Therefore to stuff the baby with paps and slops is to deprive it of the most strengthening food; for if its stomach be filled with pap, there cannot be any room for food.
  • Throughout the years a soft gruel-like substance called pap was fed to small babies. Pap was made of a number of things including ground cornmeal and water.

Synonyms

soft food, mush, semi-liquid food, baby food, slop, slush, swill, pulp, purée, mash, paste
informal goo, gloop, gook
North American informal glop
1.1(In Africa and the Caribbean) porridge, usually made with maize meal.Other items include a finger lunch of meat dishes, vegetables and salads or a braai menu of chicken peri-peri, rump steak, traditional wors served with pap, rolls, roasted potato and tomato gravy....
  • Apart from tasting traditional Xhosa food - from kudu steaks to samp and beans and stywe pap - the Canadians will be licking their fingers as they tuck into specially made Springbok wors.
  • Customers are given a choice between pap and rice served with chicken or beef stew.
2Worthless or trivial reading matter or entertainment: limitless channels serving up an undemanding diet of pap...
  • The argument goes that TV schedules are full of pap, with too much concentration on entertainment rather than the worthier fare of education.
  • Both numbers have a degree of sophistication that is not exactly very high, but much higher than the pap offered in other contemporary and even more modern musicals.
  • Her conspicuous wealth, derived from the public demand for the pap she peddles, is further cause for resentment.

Synonyms

trivia, pulp, pulp fiction, rubbish, trash, nonsense, froth;
British candyfloss
informal dreck, drivel, twaddle, rot
rare pabulum, pablum
adjective South African
1(Of food) lacking flavour and firmness: the apple is so pap I won’t eat it
1.1(Of a person) lacking physical or emotional strength; feeble: this flu makes people feel pap...
  • In one of her interviews in Egypt they bring up that "she's not a pap person like people think".
  • He is clearly a an anonymous PAP person employed to trawl the blogs, attack the views and attitudes of the writers without offering any constructive criticism.
1.2(Of an inflatable object) under-inflated; flat: my wheel was pap so I had to push the bike home

Origin

Late Middle English: probably from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch pappe, probably based on Latin pappare 'eat'.

  • pamper from Late Middle English:

    The early sense of pamper was ‘cram with food’, developing the sense' to indulge, spoil' in the mid 16th century. It is probably of Low German or Dutch origin and associated with German dialect pampfen ‘cram, gorge’. It may be related to pap (Late Middle English) probably based on Latin pappare ‘to eat’, describing bland, soft, or semi-liquid food. The old sense of pap for a woman's breast could be from Latin pappilla ‘nipple’ but is more likely from a Scandinavian root imitating the sound of a baby sucking.

Rhymes

pap2

/pap /
noun archaic or dialect
A woman’s breast or nipple.Gripping their wife's puny paps, withered by suckling babes, they reached for those firm round breasts which had known ought but a man's hunger....
  • And how else did you think I came to you with my paps full of milk, when you were first a babe?
  • Most of the patients on their list are women who go to a gynecologist for paps and mammograms.

Origin

Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin, from a base imitative of the sound of sucking.

pap3

/pap /
informal
noun
A paparazzo.The truth is she looks out of a window, my friend, and there are paps coming over the fence....
  • But the paps, along with legal experts, say they are protected by their right to free speech under the US constitution.
  • So how the hearts of the paps must have leapt as Madonna plus children and lover Jesus hoved into view off the coast of Italy this week.
verb (paps, papping, papped) [with object]
Take a photograph of (a celebrity) without permission: she can’t go to the gym or pop to the shops without being papped
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