Dap vs Pap - What's the difference?
dap | pap |
(Bristol, Wales, usually in plural) A plimsoll.
* 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169:
(Bristol) To run or go somewhere quickly.
To do some form of dipping, dabbing, or bouncing action.
(uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
(uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
(South Africa) Porridge.
(informal, derogatory) support from official patronage
The pulp of fruit.
(slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
* He is so pap and boring.
(obsolete) To feed with pap.
* Bible, Luke xi. 27
* , II.xii:
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:
*, II.13:
A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
(usually, in the passive) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
As nouns the difference between dap and pap
is that dap is a plimsoll 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 dap and pap
is that dap is to run or go somewhere quickly 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.dap
English
Noun
(en noun)- I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps .
Verb
(dapp)- I'll just dap down to the shop.
- in metalworking is the technique of creating a hollow indentation, also known as doming, dishing or dapping .
- dapping is to rebound or adopt a rebounding action, e.g. to fish by letting the bait dip and bob lightly onto the water, in the manner that some insects lay eggs in the water.
Anagrams
* English onomatopoeias ----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)- Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
- Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
- Treasury pap
- (Ainsworth)
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(papp)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Etymology 2
(etyl) pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps form (etyl) papilla; or perhaps compare Old (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the paps which thou hast sucked
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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.
- (Macaulay)
Etymology 3
Shortened form of Pap smear from , American physician.Etymology 4
Etymology 5
From (paparazzo)Verb
- Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!