Pap - English meaning

noun

An item of sweet food in the form of a mass of pink or white fluffy spun sugar wrapped round a stick.

Usage examples:

A fat baby was pushing candyfloss into its chubby face

noun

A large soft ball of white or pink sugar in the form of thin threads, usually sold on a stick and eaten at fairs and amusement parks

noun

Rubbish; trash.

Usage examples:

This so-called art is pure dreck

noun

Something of poor quality

Usage examples:

Most of what's on tv is dreck.

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

Don't talk such drivel!

verb

Talk nonsense.

Usage examples:

He was drivelling on about the glory days

noun

Something written or said that is completely worthless; nonsense

Usage examples:

The papers are filled with drivel about movie stars.

noun

A mass of small bubbles in liquid caused by agitation, fermentation, or salivating.

Usage examples:

Leave the yeast until there is a good head of froth

verb

Form or contain a rising or overflowing mass of small bubbles.

Usage examples:

The red blood frothed at his lips

noun

A mass of small bubbles, esp. on the surface of a liquid

noun

Any thick liquid or sticky substance

noun

Sticky and amorphous matter, typically something unpleasant.

Usage examples:

A cup of vile green glop

verb

Transfer (a sloppy or sticky substance) to a container.

Usage examples:

Glop 2 gallons of premixed compound into a bucket

noun

A sticky, thick substance, such as food, that appears unpleasant

Usage examples:

I can’t believe they served us this glop.

noun

A sticky or slimy substance.

Usage examples:

He tipped the grayish goo from the test tube

noun

A thick, sticky substance

Usage examples:

Mudslides left goo all over the highway.

noun

A foreigner, especially a person of se asian descent.

noun

A sloppy wet or viscous substance.

Usage examples:

All that gook she kept putting on her face

verb

Reduce (food or other substance) to a soft mass by crushing it.

Usage examples:

Mash the beans to a paste

noun

A soft mass made by crushing a substance into a pulp, sometimes with the addition of liquid.

Usage examples:

Pound the garlic to a mash

noun

Compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

noun

A soft, wet, pulpy mass.

Usage examples:

Red lentils cook quickly and soon turn to mush

verb

Reduce (a substance) to a soft, wet, pulpy mass.

Usage examples:

I reached over to his plate with my spoon and mushed together his pie with slice of flan

exclamation

A command urging on dogs pulling a sled during a journey across snow.

noun

Spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense.

Usage examples:

He was talking absolute nonsense

noun

Foolish words or actions

Usage examples:

Those accusations are pure/sheer nonsense., what’s all this nonsense about quitting school?

noun

Bland or insipid intellectual matter, entertainment, etc.

Usage examples:

I think what documentary filmmakers do is make an attempt - and non-fiction writing does this as we…

noun

Bland or insipid intellectual matter, entertainment, etc.

Usage examples:

I think what documentary filmmakers do is make an attempt - and non-fiction writing does this as we…

noun

A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid.

Usage examples:

Blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste

verb

Coat with paste.

Usage examples:

When coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric

noun

A thick, wet substance used for sticking things together, or any soft, wet mixture of powder and liquid

Usage examples:

Use paste, glue, or tape to attach the pictures., tomato paste, she pasted a heart onto the valenti…

noun

A soft, wet, shapeless mass of material.

Usage examples:

Boiling with soda will reduce your peas to pulp

verb

Crush into a soft, wet, shapeless mass.

Usage examples:

Bales of waste paper were chopped, shredded, and pulped

noun

A soft, wet mass, often produced by crushing something

Usage examples:

Mash the bananas to a pulp and then mix in the yogurt., wood pulp

noun

A smooth cream of liquidized or crushed fruit or vegetables.

Usage examples:

Tomato puree

verb

Make a puree of (fruit or vegetables).

Usage examples:

Puree the potatoes through the sieve

verb

To crush food into a thick, soft sauce

Usage examples:

Puree the bananas thoroughly in a blender., [ u ] add two tablespoons of tomato puree.

verb

(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose.

Usage examples:

The chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away

noun

The process of decaying.

Usage examples:

The leaves were turning black with rot

verb

To decay, or to cause something to decay or weaken

Usage examples:

[ i ] the fallen apples rotted on the ground., [ t ] dampness rotted the old wood., rot weakened th…

noun

Waste material; refuse or litter.

Usage examples:

Householders may be charged for the removal of non-recyclable rubbish

verb

Criticize severely and reject as worthless.

Usage examples:

He rubbished the idea of a european community-wide carbon tax

adjective

Very bad; worthless or useless.

Usage examples:

People might say i was a rubbish manager

verb

(of a liquid) spill or flow over the edge of a container, typically as a result of careless handling.

Usage examples:

Water slopped over the edge of the sink

noun

Waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.

Usage examples:

Sink slops

noun

A workman's loose outer garment.

noun

Partially melted snow or ice.

Usage examples:

The snow was turning into brown slush in the gutters

verb

Make a squelching or splashing sound.

Usage examples:

There was water slushing around in the galley

noun

Snow or ice that has started to melt

Usage examples:

The city’s streets were covered with dirty, gray slush., slushy snow can be very slippery.

verb

Wash or rinse out (an area or container) by pouring large amounts of water or other liquid over or into it.

Usage examples:

I swilled out the mug

noun

Kitchen refuse and scraps of waste food mixed with water for feeding to pigs.

Usage examples:

Government yesterday also placed an immediate ban on swill (kitchen refuse) bought from ships after…

verb

To drink something, usually alcohol, in large amounts

noun

Waste material; refuse.

Usage examples:

The subway entrance was blocked with trash

verb

Damage or destroy.

Usage examples:

My apartment's been totally trashed

noun

Anything that is worthless and of low quality; waste

Usage examples:

We filled three cans with trash from the garage., i simply trash that kind of mail., some people se…

noun

Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value.

Usage examples:

We fill our days with meaningless trivia

plural noun

Unimportant or little-known details or information

Usage examples:

This is a game for trivia buffs (= people interested in knowing little-known facts).

noun

Trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense.

Usage examples:

He dismissed the novel as self-indulgent twaddle

verb

Talk or write in a trivial or foolish way.

Usage examples:

What is that old fellow twaddling about?

noun

Speech or writing that is silly or not true

Usage examples:

She dismissed the findings as utter twaddle/a load of old twaddle.