Pap

subs. (common).—1.  The emoluments of office—salaries, fees, perquisites.

  1880.  Nation, xlviii. 379. At the end of four years, not only should an officer make an accounting and submit to an audit, but should vacate his place, so that somebody else might get some of the PAP he had enjoyed during this period.

  2.  (thieves’).—Paper: specifically paper money, or SOFT (q.v.).

  1887.  J. W. HORSLEY, Jottings from Jail. Come on, we have had a lucky touch for half-a-century in PAP.

  3.  (literary: perhaps obsolete).—(a) A nipple; (b) a breast.

  1390.  MANDEVILLE, Travels, 154. Zif it be a female, thei don away that on PAPPE, with an hote Hiren; and zif it be a Womman of gret Lynage, thei don awey the left PAPPE, that thei may the better beren a Scheeld.

  1592.  SHAKESPEARE, Midsummer Night’s Dream, v. 1. 303.

  1594.  LYNDSAY, The Testament of Squyer Meldrum [E.E.T.S. 945].

  1603.  CHAPMAN, Homer, ‘Iliad,’ iv. He strooke him at his breastes right PAPPE, quite through his shoulder-bone.

  1612.  DRAYTON, Poly-Olbion, i. Nourish’d and bred up at her most plenteous PAP.

  4.  (American).—Father: POP (q.v.).

  1892.  A. C. GUNTER, Miss Dividends, iii. Your PAP has had too much railroad and mine on his hands.

  5.  (old).—Bread sauce.—GROSE (1785).

  TO GIVE PAP WITH A HATCHET, verb. phr. (old).—To chastise; to do an unkindness, or treat unhandsomely.

  1589.  NASHE, Pappe with a Hatchet [Title].

  1594.  SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry VI., iv. 7. Ye shall have a hempen caudle then, and the PAP [now read help] OF A HATCHET.

  [?].  A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving [The Harleian Miscellany (PARK), II., 171]. He, that so old seeks for a Nurse so young, shall have PAP, WITH A HATCHET, for his Comfort.

  1594.  J. LYLY, Mother Bombie, i. 3. They give us pap with a spoone before we can speake, and when wee speake for that wee love, PAP WITH A HATCHET.

  MOUTH FULL OF PAP, phr. (old).—Still childish.—GROSE (1785).