pamp

See also: PAMP

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, archaic) To pamper.
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