pap
3
8.2
- noun
- /pæp/
:
papilla
- After she'd buttered and gravied the pap he was usually served, his plate had gone back to the kitchen as clean as if a dog had licked it.
You know, it's just pap and that doesn't allow the brain to have time to send the messages and the gut to work to say I'm full.
- You know, it's just pap and that doesn't allow the brain to have time to send the messages and the gut to work to say I'm full.
Examples
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I didn't bring his plastic container of pap and curried chicken leg to keep company in Mrs. Stark's office.
Fiction book (1994) -
The lady changed the baby's clothes and fed him pap she mixed herself, and wiped both his face and his bottom as if that were something she had always wanted to do.
Fiction book (1994) -
Although filling, these paps do not supply all the nutrients required by developing children.
Academic text (2004) -
You know, it's just pap and that doesn't allow the brain to have time to send the messages and the gut to work to say I'm full.
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He's also toilet-trained and able to eat mashed pap.
Fiction book (2001) -
Still, she was strong and would have gone and beaten the Boers herself if she didn't have to prepare mealie pap for seven of us.
Fiction book (2002) -
Physicians argued that mothers' tendency to begin supplementary feedings of pap and solid foods too early caused unnecessary distress in infancy.
Academic text (1994) -
The doctor recommended soft foods like pap for patients recovering from surgery.
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After her tonsillectomy, she was only able to eat pap and soup for a week.
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For breakfast, he was served pap made from oats and milk, which was easy to swallow.
Synonyms
1
8.1
A soft bland cereal food for babies and young children
Soft wet food that babies or sick people can eat
Soft, thin food that people give to babies or sick people
Soft food you eat with a spoon that you can swallow without chewing
Antonyms
Compounds
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pap for soft, bland food comes from the same old word pappa, which meant 'soft food' or 'porridge' for babies, so pap means mushy food that is easy to swallow.