pap.
Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
Meaning & usage
Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
Pablum or nonsense.
Porridge.
Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
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Treasury pap
The pulp of fruit.
Where this word comes from
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.
To feed with pap.
Where this word comes from
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.
A female breast or nipple.
A man's breast.
A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”).
Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
Spineless, wet, without character.
He is so pap and boring.
Flat.
I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
Where this word comes from
From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”). Cognate with etymology 1.
To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!
Where this word comes from
Clipping of paparazzo.
Pa; father.
Where this word comes from
Compare pa, papa, pop.
Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
Where this word comes from
Ellipsis of Pap smear.
Clipping of paparazzo.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of paparazzo.
Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.