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What is the difference between chap and pap?

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As nouns the difference between chap and pap

is that chap is a man, a fellow while pap is food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.

As verbs the difference between chap and pap

is that chap is of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness while pap is to feed with pap.

As an adjective pap is

spineless, wet, without character.

As an acronym PAP is

people's Action Party.

chap

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from in 16th century English.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated, outside, UK, and, Australia) A man, a fellow.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap .’}}
  • (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
  • * Steele
    • If you want to sell, here is your chap .
  • (Southern US) A child.
    • Usage notes
    This word's existence in the US can be seen in the Pennsylvania German term .
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * chappie * chappo

    Etymology 2

    Related to chip .

    Verb

    (chapp)
  • Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  • To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  • * Blackmore
    • Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
  • * Lyly
    • Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
  • (Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 35:
    • The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look [...].
    Derived terms
    * chapped * chapstick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  • (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
  • * T. Fuller
    • Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
  • (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
    • Derived terms
    * chappy

    Etymology 3

    From Northern English .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) The jaw (often in plural).
  • *1610 , , by Shakespeare
    • This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
  • * Cowley
    • His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps .
  • One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

    • See also

    * chaps

    Anagrams

    *

    pap

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origins unclear. Related to (etyl) pappe, Dutch pap, Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian , among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) 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.
  • (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
  • (South Africa) Porridge.
    • Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
  • (informal, derogatory) support from official patronage
    • Treasury pap
  • The pulp of fruit.
    • (Ainsworth)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
  • * He is so pap and boring.

    • Verb

    (papp)
  • (obsolete) To feed with pap.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps form (etyl) papilla; or perhaps compare Old (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * Bible, Luke xi. 27
    • the paps which thou hast sucked
  • * , II.xii:
    • But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:
    • they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps .
  • *, II.13:
    • Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap , that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him.
  • A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
    • (Macaulay)

    Etymology 3

    Shortened form of Pap smear from , American physician.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pap smear

    • Etymology 4

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (label) Flat.
    • I got a puncture and the wheel went pap .

    Etymology 5

    From (paparazzo)

    Verb

  • (usually, in the passive) 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!

    Anagrams

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