pamp

P3A1M3P3
/ˈpæmp/

verb

To pamper.

Similar
pampiepampsdiapdiapeediapydiapiedideedidie
OriginMiddle English pampen ← Middle Low German pampen ← Old Saxon *pampōn →
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Meanings

pamp1

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

present singular third person pamps · participle present pamping · participle past pamped · past pamped

  1. archaictransitiveTo pamper.

pamp2

nounpamp (plural pamps)

plural pamps

  1. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of pamper (“a diaper”).

    Synonyms: pampie, pamps, diap, diapee, diapy, diapie, didee, didie

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

present singular third person pamps · participle present pamping · participle past pamped · past pamped

  1. informaltransitiveTo put someone in a pamper (a diaper).

PAMP3

nounPAMP (plural PAMPs)

plural PAMPs

  1. abbreviationinitialismimmunologyInitialism of pathogen-associated molecular pattern.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
diaperpampiepampiespamps

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bamb-“round object”
  2. Proto-Germanic*pampōną“to swell”
  3. Proto-West Germanic*pampōn
  4. Old Saxon*pampōn
  5. Middle Low Germanpampen“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”
  6. Middle Englishpampen
  7. Englishpamp

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”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with pamp

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Cite this entry
APA

pamp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pamp

MLA

“pamp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pamp. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pamp,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pamp.

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