Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spoon for pap; a spoon for feeding infants.
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Examples
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We do not deny the statement of the devil as to what he calls the assault committed upon him; but the fact is, the editor was not in his own study, but was "taking his turn" at the pap-spoon of the Duke of
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various
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'Such children, then,' said he, 'as are brought up by hand, must needs be indebted for similar sensations to a very different object; and yet, I believe, no man has ever felt any intense emotions of amatory delight at beholding a pap-spoon.'
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various
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Cornwall has appointed Lord Glengall pap-spoon in waiting to his Royal
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various
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The Heir Apparent to the English throne has, we are told, been lately subjected to this frightful vicissitude; and though his Royal Highness is said to have borne it tolerably well, it will appear that while he took to the pap-spoon with princely fortitude, there was something of the infant perceptible in his mode of first receiving it.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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"Am I to be flouted thus by a piece of pink-and-whiteness just escaped from the nursery pap-spoon?"
A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and pap-spoon, swallowing pills and herb tea.
Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897
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On the third day of my existence, having been starved out of my resistance to the pap-spoon, I was consigned to the care of nurse Nightly, who with a sick and helpless daughter lived in an obscure part of the town.
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