pap
Betekenis (Engels)
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- Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- (colloquial) Nonsense; pablum.
- Porridge.
- A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
- (informal) Support from official patronage.
- The pulp of fruit.
Concepten
Synoniemen
soft diet
spoon food
stir-about
mushy food
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/pæp/
Etymologie (Engels)
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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