Middle English Dictionary Entry
pap n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pap n. Also pape, pappe. |
| Etymology | OF papa & ML papo. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A gruel or porridge; baby food; ~ dele, ?a sauce; ~ mete, pap; ~ panne, a pan for making pap.
Associated quotations
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.21 : Hares in Papdele.
- (1421) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.93 : [One small] pappepanne [and one small] braspanne.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)47b/a : Pappatum: pappe.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)160b/b : Chaufe a lyte þer of as þou woldist do pappe & þer wiþ anoynte þee til þou be hole.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)72/34 : Tak cow mylk, and put þerto a subtile whete meel, and boile þam togidre in maner of children pappe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)152 : Feede chyldryn wythe pappe mete: Papo.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)382 : Papmete for chylder: Papatum.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)194/615 : For the mormall: Take cow mylke and floure soden togedir as papp..& make a pleystre.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)173 : Strawe in þy poudres..as þou woldest strewe flour in to a chyldes pap.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)123/9 : Stere it weell..tyl þat it be as thykke as pappe.
- a1475 Limn.Bks.(Brog 2.1)87 : Take salle armoniac..and vytriall..powdere hem togedyre, and temper hem with pysse thyk as pappe.
- (a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)154 : Tak the white poudre of the leed..and put it in a newe erthen pot, and put clene water therto..and let it stonde..that it be as it were thikke pappe.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Prayer RBury (LdMisc 683)17 : O blyssid Robert..Glorious marter..Fostrid with mylk, and tendre pap þi foode, Was it nat routhe to se þi veynes bleede?
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)47/1 : Take whyt flour and do hit þer-Inne and stere hit..tille hit be al-most as þykke as pap.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)1.422 : Tak fayre renynge water and boil hem wol ther in til the be soft os any pape.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)45b : As for the proporcione thow must be ware..One of the sonne, two of the mone, Till all to gether like papp be done.