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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”).
- Rhymes: -æmp
pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)
- (transitive, archaic) To pamper.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly ABDL) To put someone in pampers (a diaper).
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- (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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Nominative | pamp | pampen | pampar | pamparna |
Genitive | pamps | pampens | pampars | pamparnas |