PAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pap mean? 

• PAP (noun)
  The noun PAP has 3 senses:

1. worthless or oversimplified ideas

2. a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders

3. the small projection of a mammary gland

  Familiarity information: PAP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worthless or oversimplified ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

pablum; pap

Hypernyms ("pap" is a kind of...):

drivel; garbage (a worthless message)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pap; soft diet; spoon food

Hypernyms ("pap" is a kind of...):

diet (a prescribed selection of foods)

Meronyms (parts of "pap"):

Pablum (a soft form of cereal for infants)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The small projection of a mammary gland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit

Hypernyms ("pap" is a kind of...):

reproductive organ; sex organ (any organ involved in sexual reproduction)

Holonyms ("pap" is a part of...):

mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)

 Context examples 

An abnormality often noted in pap smears.

(Koilocytotic Atypia, NCI Thesaurus)

I have seen a better soldier with pap for food and swaddling clothes for harness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are too simple, too elemental, and too rational, by my faith, to prosper on such pap.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It von’t be long that you’ll be able to see my crooks vich ’ave been on Figg’s conk, and on Jack Broughton’s, and on ’Arry Gray’s, and many another good fightin’ man that was millin’ for a livin’ before your fathers could eat pap.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was prodding for my food into a camp-kettle when they were howling for their pap.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)