pamp

• Rhymes: -æmp

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From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pampōn, from Proto-Germanic *pampōną (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with West Frisian pampelje, Dutch pampelen, pamperen (“to cram, pamper”), German pampfen, bamben, Norwegian pampa (“to stuff oneself”).

pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)

1. (transitive, archaic) To pamper.

pamp (plural pamps)

1. (informal, ABDL) Clipping of pamper (“a diaper”).

pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)

1. (transitive, informal, ABDL) To put someone in a pamper (a diaper).

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pamp c

1. (somewhat derogatory) a person (with autocratic tendencies) in a powerful position (especially within a trade union or politics), a big cheese

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