Pap vs Puppy - What's the difference?
pap | puppy |
(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
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*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:
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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.
A young dog, usually cute and playful.
A young rat.
A young seal.
(slang, usually, in the plural) A woman’s breast.
(informal) A (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker.
(derogatory) A conceited and impertinent person.
* Addison
To bring forth whelps; to pup.
As nouns the difference between pap and puppy
is that pap is paste; an adhesive paste while puppy is a young dog, usually cute and playful.As a verb puppy is
to bring forth whelps; to pup.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!
puppy
English
Noun
(puppies)- I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.
- I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.