pap
/pæp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water."
- "Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai."
- "Treasury pap"
- "I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple."
- "A child's head is naturally as soft as the pap of an apple."
- "But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !"
Etymology
From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.
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Inflected Forms
paps (plural)
paps (present, singular)
papping (participle, present)
papped (participle, past)
papped (past)
more pap (comparative)
most pap (superlative)