pap

Meaning

Noun

1. Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
2. (colloquial) Nonsense; pablum.
3. Porridge.
4. A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
5. (informal) Support from official patronage.
6. The pulp of fruit.

Verb

To feed with pap.

Adj

1. (slang) Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
2. (slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
3. (slang) Flat.

Verb

To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.

Verb

Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).

Synonyms

nipple

teat

mush

mamilla

tit

mammilla

pablum

soft diet

pudding

kasha

porridge

spoon food

cornstarch

dap

double talk

drool

dug

fiddle-faddle

folderol

garbage

🗑️

gobbledygook

gruel

hogwash

hot air

locoweed

mumbo jumbo

nonsense

piffle

puree

rack

rigamarole

stir-about

sustenance

taradiddle

thorax

titty

twaddle

abracadabra

mushy food

stuff and nonsense

tarradiddle

udder

applesauce

balderdash

baloney

boloney

bosom

breast

brisket

bunkum

chyle

claptrap

cobblers

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pæp/

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.