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nounPlural paps pappæp mass noun1Bland soft or semi-liquid food such as that suitable for babies or invalids. 〈常贬〉（婴儿、残疾人吃的）糊；半流食 a trayful of tasteless pap 努力去吃满满一盘无味的半流食。 Example sentencesExamples - At the age of 5 months, a baby should be given pap, besides breast milk.
- Therefore to stuff the baby with paps and slops is to deprive it of the most strengthening food; for if its stomach be filled with pap, there cannot be any room for food.
- Throughout the years a soft gruel-like substance called pap was fed to small babies. Pap was made of a number of things including ground cornmeal and water.
- Babies are breast-fed on demand, often for well over a year, although solid foods, usually rice pap, may be introduced at a young age.
Synonyms soft food, mush, semi-liquid food, baby food, slop, slush, swill, pulp, purée, mash, paste informal goo, gloop, gook North American informal glop - 1.1 (in Africa and the Caribbean) porridge, usually made with maize meal.
（非洲、加勒比地区）粥，玉米粥 Example sentencesExamples - The restaurants reach a market that does not demand the sophistication of established restaurants, offering customers favourite traditional dishes such as pap and chicken, meat or intestines, liver or tripe.
- Other items include a finger lunch of meat dishes, vegetables and salads or a braai menu of chicken peri-peri, rump steak, traditional wors served with pap, rolls, roasted potato and tomato gravy.
- Customers are given a choice between pap and rice served with chicken or beef stew.
- Apart from tasting traditional Xhosa food - from kudu steaks to samp and beans and stywe pap - the Canadians will be licking their fingers as they tuck into specially made Springbok wors.
- Most of the restaurants serve French cuisine, and just as pap is our staple food here, so is bread over there, every meal comes with bread.
2Worthless or trivial reading matter or entertainment. limitless channels serving up an undemanding diet of pap 播出毫无价值的低劣节目的不计其数的频道。 Example sentencesExamples - The sorry state of preaching is reflected in, and no doubt encouraged by, the pap that passes for devotional writing and ‘homiletical helps’ among today's Catholics.
- It's such a shame that teachers are getting sent out to teach very needy students and are getting such pap in their education programs.
- How odd to find suddenly that the British have all the style and authenticity, and the Americans, the Australians and the French have all the pap.
- They continue to resist the corporate juggernauts that routinely flatten talent into the pap of pop.
- Both numbers have a degree of sophistication that is not exactly very high, but much higher than the pap offered in other contemporary and even more modern musicals.
- It's said that the mainstream media is increasingly dominated by corporate interests, political spin, and bread and circuses postmodern pap.
- They were undoubtedly harder to make and are often far more refreshing than the usual pap that gets projected our way.
- I would look forward to reading your editorial accompanied by a well-thought-out illustration - now all you give me is pap.
- The only thing that it had to have was some kind of bite to it, not the pap that you hear in the charts.
- I remember thinking the plot was sentimental, rubbishy pap.
- There was a time when the pap served up in this annual competition, which gave us Abba and Bucks Fizz, was simply a funny joke.
- He's a boyband superstar that sings mindless pap, right?
- Her conspicuous wealth, derived from the public demand for the pap she peddles, is further cause for resentment.
- Such ingenuity and self-confidence should be applauded at a time when Hollywood churns out bland twentysomething pap at vast cost.
- Not a day is free of the pap that infects British culture.
- Anyone who's lived in the US and had to exist on the pap that passes for current affairs will share my fears for what the future holds for us.
- The argument goes that TV schedules are full of pap, with too much concentration on entertainment rather than the worthier fare of education.
- But this is just so run-of-the-mill, the pap churned out by the ton in the early sixties.
- It's all bland, unoriginal pap that will only appeal to the nostalgia-seekers of the original BSB generation.
- It's an unfortunate trend that news magazines, like the underrated Bulletin, are perceived as being the men's domain, whilst the lightweight pap is for women.
Synonyms trivia, pulp, pulp fiction, rubbish, trash, nonsense, froth British candyfloss informal dreck, drivel, twaddle, rot rare pabulum, pablum
adjective pap South African 1(of food) lacking flavour and firmness. 〈南非〉（食物）难吃的；无味的 the apple is so pap I won't eat it - 1.1 (of a person) lacking physical or emotional strength; feeble.
（人）孱弱的；脆弱的 this flu makes people feel pap Example sentencesExamples - He is clearly a an anonymous PAP person employed to trawl the blogs, attack the views and attitudes of the writers without offering any constructive criticism.
- In one of her interviews in Egypt they bring up that "she's not a pap person like people think".
- 1.2 (of an inflatable object) under-inflated; flat.
（可充气物体）气不足的；瘪的 my wheel was pap so I had to push the bike home
OriginLate Middle English: probably from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch pappe, probably based on Latin pappare 'eat'. pamper from Late Middle English: The early sense of pamper was ‘cram with food’, developing the sense' to indulge, spoil' in the mid 16th century. It is probably of Low German or Dutch origin and associated with German dialect pampfen ‘cram, gorge’. It may be related to pap (Late Middle English) probably based on Latin pappare ‘to eat’, describing bland, soft, or semi-liquid food. The old sense of pap for a woman's breast could be from Latin pappilla ‘nipple’ but is more likely from a Scandinavian root imitating the sound of a baby sucking.
Rhymesbap, cap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, map, nap, nappe, rap, sap, schappe, scrap, slap, snap, strap, tap, trap, wrap, yap, zap nounPlural paps pappæp dialect, archaic A woman's breast or nipple. 〈古或方〉（妇女的）乳房；乳头 Example sentencesExamples - And how else did you think I came to you with my paps full of milk, when you were first a babe?
- Gripping their wife's puny paps, withered by suckling babes, they reached for those firm round breasts which had known ought but a man's hunger.
- Most of the patients on their list are women who go to a gynecologist for paps and mammograms.
- A far better comparison would be between two groups of women - one of which had conventional paps, the other of which had monolayer paps.
OriginMiddle English: probably of Scandinavian origin, from a base imitative of the sound of sucking. nounPlural paps pappæp informal A paparazzo. 〈非正式〉跟踪并偷拍名人照片的摄影记者，狗仔队成员 Example sentencesExamples - The truth is she looks out of a window, my friend, and there are paps coming over the fence.
- So how the hearts of the paps must have leapt as Madonna plus children and lover Jesus hoved into view off the coast of Italy this week.
- But the paps, along with legal experts, say they are protected by their right to free speech under the US constitution.
verbpapped, papping, paps pappæp [with object]informal Take a photograph of (a celebrity) without permission. 偷拍（名人的）照片 she can't go to the gym or pop to the shops without being papped 她去健身房或逛商店时总会被人偷拍。
nounpappæp derogatory 1Bland soft or semiliquid food such as that suitable for babies or invalids. 〈常贬〉（婴儿、残疾人吃的）糊；半流食 trying to eat a trayful of tasteless pap 努力去吃满满一盘无味的半流食。 Example sentencesExamples - Therefore to stuff the baby with paps and slops is to deprive it of the most strengthening food; for if its stomach be filled with pap, there cannot be any room for food.
- Babies are breast-fed on demand, often for well over a year, although solid foods, usually rice pap, may be introduced at a young age.
- At the age of 5 months, a baby should be given pap, besides breast milk.
- Throughout the years a soft gruel-like substance called pap was fed to small babies. Pap was made of a number of things including ground cornmeal and water.
Synonyms soft food, mush, semi-liquid food, baby food, slop, slush, swill, pulp, purée, mash, paste - 1.1 Reading matter or entertainment that is worthless or lacking in substance.
〈贬〉无实际价值（或实质性内容）的作品（或娱乐活动） limitless channels serving up an undemanding diet of pap 播出毫无价值的低劣节目的不计其数的频道。 Example sentencesExamples - They were undoubtedly harder to make and are often far more refreshing than the usual pap that gets projected our way.
- But this is just so run-of-the-mill, the pap churned out by the ton in the early sixties.
- Her conspicuous wealth, derived from the public demand for the pap she peddles, is further cause for resentment.
- It's said that the mainstream media is increasingly dominated by corporate interests, political spin, and bread and circuses postmodern pap.
- Such ingenuity and self-confidence should be applauded at a time when Hollywood churns out bland twentysomething pap at vast cost.
- The only thing that it had to have was some kind of bite to it, not the pap that you hear in the charts.
- I remember thinking the plot was sentimental, rubbishy pap.
- Not a day is free of the pap that infects British culture.
- Anyone who's lived in the US and had to exist on the pap that passes for current affairs will share my fears for what the future holds for us.
- Both numbers have a degree of sophistication that is not exactly very high, but much higher than the pap offered in other contemporary and even more modern musicals.
- The sorry state of preaching is reflected in, and no doubt encouraged by, the pap that passes for devotional writing and ‘homiletical helps’ among today's Catholics.
- I would look forward to reading your editorial accompanied by a well-thought-out illustration - now all you give me is pap.
- It's such a shame that teachers are getting sent out to teach very needy students and are getting such pap in their education programs.
- How odd to find suddenly that the British have all the style and authenticity, and the Americans, the Australians and the French have all the pap.
- There was a time when the pap served up in this annual competition, which gave us Abba and Bucks Fizz, was simply a funny joke.
- It's all bland, unoriginal pap that will only appeal to the nostalgia-seekers of the original BSB generation.
- It's an unfortunate trend that news magazines, like the underrated Bulletin, are perceived as being the men's domain, whilst the lightweight pap is for women.
- The argument goes that TV schedules are full of pap, with too much concentration on entertainment rather than the worthier fare of education.
- He's a boyband superstar that sings mindless pap, right?
- They continue to resist the corporate juggernauts that routinely flatten talent into the pap of pop.
Synonyms trivia, pulp, pulp fiction, rubbish, trash, nonsense, froth
OriginLate Middle English: probably from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch pappe, probably based on Latin pappare ‘eat’. nounpappæp dialect, archaic A woman's breast or nipple. 〈古或方〉（妇女的）乳房；乳头 Example sentencesExamples - Gripping their wife's puny paps, withered by suckling babes, they reached for those firm round breasts which had known ought but a man's hunger.
- And how else did you think I came to you with my paps full of milk, when you were first a babe?
- A far better comparison would be between two groups of women - one of which had conventional paps, the other of which had monolayer paps.
- Most of the patients on their list are women who go to a gynecologist for paps and mammograms.
OriginMiddle English: probably of Scandinavian origin, from a base imitative of the sound of sucking. nounpappæp informal A paparazzo. 〈非正式〉跟踪并偷拍名人照片的摄影记者，狗仔队成员 Example sentencesExamples - The truth is she looks out of a window, my friend, and there are paps coming over the fence.
- So how the hearts of the paps must have leapt as Madonna plus children and lover Jesus hoved into view off the coast of Italy this week.
- But the paps, along with legal experts, say they are protected by their right to free speech under the US constitution.
verbpappæp [with object]informal Take a photograph of (a celebrity) without permission. 偷拍（名人的）照片 she can't go to the gym or anywhere without being papped 她去健身房或逛商店时总会被人偷拍。
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