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noun
Clipping of pamper (“a diaper”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
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Synonyms: pampie, pamps, diap, diapee, diapy, diapie, didee, didie, diddy, didy, dipe, hippins, napkin, nappy, pamper, Pampers, dip, gamer pants, gaming pants, omutsu, padding, pamp
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Initialism of pathogen-associated molecular pattern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: immunology, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To pamper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To put someone in a pamper (a diaper).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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”).
