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paps

paps is the plural of pap.

paps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pap.

Meaning of pap

Noun

pap (countable and uncountable, plural paps)

  1. (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.
  2. (colloquial, uncountable) Pablum or nonsense.
  3. (South Africa) Porridge.
    • Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
  4. (Africa, Nigeria, West) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
  5. (derogatory, informal) Support from official patronage.
    • Treasury pap
  6. The pulp of fruit.
    • I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple.1633, James Hart, The Diet of the Diseased

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Proper noun capitalized: PAPS

PAPS

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of physical appearance perfectionism scale.

Noun (1) capitalized: PAPs

PAPs

  1. (plural) plural of PAP

Noun (2) capitalized: Paps

Paps

  1. (plural) plural of Pap

Questions about paps

What is paps the plural of?
Paps is the plural of pap.
What part of speech is paps?
Paps can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near paps in the dictionary

  1. paprikashes
  2. papris
  3. Paprocki
  4. Paprockis
  5. PAPRs
  6. paps
  7. papsak
  8. papsaks
  9. Papua
  10. Papua N.G.
  11. Papua New Guinea

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paps (page history and authors); PAPS (page history and authors); PAPs (page history and authors); Paps (page history and authors); pap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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