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† pamp, pampe, v. Obs. rare.
[app. the primary vb. of which pamper is the frequentative. Cf. Ger. pampen (dial. and colloq.) to cram, Bavarian pampfen, sich voll pampfen to gorge oneself (Schmeller); also Sw. dial. pampen swollen up; Lith. pampti to swell. See below.]
trans. To cram; to pamper.
a1400[On Christ's Temptation] in Wright Rel. Ant. II. 41 He stirith him [= them] to pappe and pampe her fleische, desyrynge delicous metis and drynkis.
[Note. The existence of this vb. is not altogether certain. The MS. whence the first quot. comes cannot now be found, so that its date is uncertain, and the reading might be interpreted as an error for pampre, pamper. The existence of pampe is however supported by the verb pomp (pomp v.2), which appears to be the same word. Prof. Skeat suggests the existence of an ablaut series pimp-, pamp-, pump-, to swell.] |