Green’s Dictionary of Slang

paps n.¹

breasts.

1508		Dunbar ‘The Golden Targe’ in Laing Poems (1834) I 13: Ane hundreth ladyes [...] With pappis quhite, and mydlis small as wandis.
1517		Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 134: Some huswyves come unbrased, Wyth theyr naked pappes, That flyppes and flappes.
c.1538		Thersytes (1550) B ii: I wyll also cut my pappess awaye That gaue the[e] sucke so manye a daye.
1540		D. Lyndsay Satyre of Thrie Estaits (1604) 10: sensualitie Behauld my heid behauld my gay attyre [...] Behauld my papis of portratour perfyte.
1567		L. Wager Life and Repentance of Marie Magdalene C4: Your garments must be so worne away, Your pappes may be seene if you may.
1575		Appius and Virginia in Farmer (1908) 34: Woe worth the paps that gave thee suck!
1589		Greene Menaphon (1927) 91: Hir pappes are like faire apples in the prime.
c.1590		Jeronimo (1605) Ciiii: When I pause, the mellody may moue, And hem perswasion tweene her snowy paps that her hart hearing may relent and yeeld.
1601		Jonson Cynthia’s Revels III ii: A third is most in action, swims, frisks, Plays with his mistress’s paps.
1609		Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cap 14: Some wenches come [...] With their naked pappes, / That flippes and flappes.
1621		Rowley, Dekker & Ford Witch of Edmonton IV i: Upon whose naked Paps, a Leachers thought Acts Sin in fouler shapes than can be wrought.
1625		S. Purchas Pilgrimage II Bk VI 758: They are fattest vpon their brest and paps.
1637		N. Whiting Albino and Bellama 88: Witnesse the heaving of their spongie paps.
1681		S. Colvil Whiggs Supplication Pt II 13: Some throw off Scarffs to show their Paps.
1702		R. Wodrow Analecta I (1842) 22: Her papps seemed very bigg.
1732		Proceedings at Sessions (City of London) Feb. 83/2: [of a man] He was stabb’d. I found a Puncture about an Inch and a half below the Right-pap.
1768		A. Ross Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 12: Jean’s paps wi’ sa’t and water washen clean.
1770		H. Clinker Hist. of the Haveral Wives (1799) 6: Their twa bits o’paps ay playing nidity nod.
1786		Young Coalman’s Courtship 4: Her paps plays nidity nod when she gangs.
1863		G.A. Sala Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous 179: The Daughter that as a Babe hung on her Paps.
1946		(con. 1912) B. Marshall George Brown’s Schooldays 142: Hairy fine paps they had too.
1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 274: The fat trooper had his shirt off. Across his chest was tattooed the American Eagle [...] on his left pap was General MacArthur.
1971		N. Armfelt Catching Up 41: He felt her right pap squidged against him.
1989		J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 87: Your mother had paps like a gorilla.
c.2003		Terry Fuckin Fuckwit ‘World of Arse’ on YAMS 🌐 Dirty 18-30 holiday lesbo bi-curious slappers getting their paps out every 20 seconds. Holiday reps showing the puppies for the punters.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 135: My tits are perfect in water [...] I cannae put a pnecil under one and have it just fall away — that’s only if your paps are medium or small.