Dapped vs Papped - What's the difference?
dapped | papped |
(dap)
(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.
(pap)
(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 verbs the difference between dapped and papped
is that dapped is (dap) while papped is (pap).dapped
English
Verb
(head)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 ----papped
English
Verb
(head)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!