1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas; SYN. pablum.
2. Something shaped like a nipple
3. A soft food for infants or invalids
4. Political patronage
5. Something lacking solid value or substance

ETYM Probably corrupted from pottage; perh. influenced by Old Eng. porree a kind of pottage, Old Fren. porrée, from Latin porrum, porrus, leek. Related to Pottage, Porringer.
Soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick.

ETYM Latin pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. French pulpe.
1. A soft moist part of a fruit; SYN. flesh.
2. A mixture of cellulose fibers.
3. An inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper; SYN. pulp magazine.
4. Any soft or soggy mass.
5. The soft inner part of a tooth.