PAP

Pap

Pap, also known as mieliepap in South Africa, is a traditional porridge / polenta made from mielie-meal and a staple food of the Bantu inhabitants of South Africa . Many traditional South African dishes include pap, such as smooth maize meal porridge, pap with a very thick consistency that can be held in the hand and a more dry crumbly phutu pap.

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pap

Noun

  1. Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
    Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
  2. Nonsense.
  3. Porridge.
    Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
  4. support from official patronage
    Treasury pap
  5. The pulp of fruit.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A female breast or nipple.
  2. A man's breast.
  3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. Pap smear

Verb

  1. To feed with pap.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
    Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!

Adjective

  1. Spineless, wet, without character.

Adjective (etymology 2)

  1. Flat.
    I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.


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