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There was some poor comfort in a pose like that; it was better than our helpless collapse into a middle-aged cradle, with pap-boat for feeding-bottle, and a last sleep in the nurse's arms, younger and less muscular than our own.
Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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I ordered her to buy a pap-boat; spoon, and coral, and to have them marked with a very large C.C. To own the truth Colonel, I was, at times, most horridly ashamed of this my associate, as I could not but, in my heart, acknowledge, she must truly be termed; though my pride endeavoured to consider her as a mere tool.
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I have a vast inclination to get a pap-boat myself, and make him a present of it.”
Cecilia 2008
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a pap-boat -- the boat a child first mans; to speak naughty-cally, as
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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a nurse would say, how many a row is there in the pap-boat -- how many squalls attend it when first it comes into contact with the skull!
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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I have a vast inclination to get a pap-boat myself, and make him a present of it. "
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Fanny Burney 1796
chained_bear commented on the word pap-boat
I figure this is a boat in the sense that a gravy boat is a boat; it sounds like a dish (given the definition of pap).
"'Howling and screeching, teething and croup, thrust, red-gum, measles and the belly-ache, and poor old Thurlow walking up and down rocking them in his arms all night and wondering dare he toss 'em out of window ... Chamber-pots, pap-boats, swaddling clouts drying in the kitchen ... That's why I signed on for a long, long voyage, sir.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 248
March 9, 2008
yarb commented on the word pap-boat
William was the godfather of the child, and exerted his ingenuity in the purchase of cups, spoons, pap-boats, and corals for this little Christian.
- Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ch. 35
November 26, 2008