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pamp

/ˈpæmp/

pamp verb: to pamper. Also the clipping of pamper.

Verb (1)

pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To pamper.

Verb (2)

pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To put someone in a pamper (a diaper).

Noun capitalized: PAMP

PAMP (plural PAMPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of pathogen-associated molecular pattern.

Also used as

pamp is also the clipping of pamper.

Synonyms of pamp

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Forms of pamp

Verb
third-person singular presentpamps
present participlepamping
past participlepamped
pastpamped
Noun
pluralpamps
pluralPAMPs

Origin of pamp

From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pampōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pampōn, from Proto-Germanic *pampōną (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with West Frisian pampe (“to stuff, cram”), Dutch pampen (“to cram”), German Low German pampen (“to crush, pound, stuff oneself”), German bampfen, pampen, pampfen (“to cram, gobble, eat greedily”), Norwegian Nynorsk pampa (“to stuff oneself, cram”), Swedish pampen (“stuffed, swollen up”). Compare also Saterland Frisian pämpelje (“to nurture, care for, feed”), West Frisian pampelje (“to pamper”), Dutch pampelen, pamperen (“to cram, pamper”).

Words that rhyme with pamp

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Questions about pamp

What does pamp mean?
Pamp means to pamper.
What part of speech is pamp?
Pamp can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce pamp?
Pamp is pronounced /ˈpæmp/.
What is the past tense of pamp?
The past tense of pamp is pamped.

Words near pamp in the dictionary

  1. pamoic
  2. pamoic acid
  3. Pamona
  4. pamonha
  5. pamonhas
  6. pamp
  7. pampa
  8. Pampanga
  9. Pampangan
  10. Pampangans
  11. Pampango

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