pulp

English

Etymology

From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /pʌlp/

  • Audio (General Australian):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /pʊlp/, /pʌlp/
• Rhymes: -ʌlp, -ʊlp

Noun

pulp (usually uncountable, plural pulps)

1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
   1. A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
   2. A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).
   3. A suspension of mineral particles, typically achieved by some form of agitation.
   4. The soft center of a fruit.

      Synonym: fruitflesh

   5. The soft center of a tooth.
   6. The underside of a human fingertip; a finger pad.

      Synonym: palp

   7. The very soft tissue in the spleen.
2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
   • 1983, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Defective Detective in the Pulps, page 2:

     The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.

   • 2009, David Hajdu, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture:

     The fledgling comics business was a sweatshop trade for creative hopefuls too inexperienced, too socially ill-equipped, or, more often, too minimally talented for the established avenues of hackdom, the pulps and commercial art.

Synonyms

• (soft moist mass): flesh, mash, pomace (now English regional)

Hyponyms

• (soft moist mass): pomace (created from juice or oil extraction)

Derived terms

terms derived from pulp (noun)

• beat to a pulp
• kraft pulp
• pulpaceous
• pulpal
• pulpament
• pulp chamber
• pulpectomy
• pulp engine
• pulp fiction
• pulpify
• pulpily
• pulpless
• pulp mill
• pulpotomy
• pulpous
• pulpwood
• pulpy
• soda pulp
• wood pulp
• wood-pulp

 

Translations

soft, moist mass

• Bulgarian: каша (bg) f (kaša)
• Finnish: massa (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f
• Friulian: polpe f
• Greek: πολτός (el) m (poltós)
• Hungarian: pép (hu), massza (hu)
• Irish: garr m
• Italian: polpa (it) f
• Maori: puru
• Plautdietsch: Brie m
• Portuguese: polpa (pt) f
• Romanian: pulpă (ro)
• Russian: мя́коть (ru) f (mjákotʹ), пу́льпа (ru) f (púlʹpa)
• Swahili: uji uji

center of a fruit

• Assamese: শাহ (xah)
• Azerbaijani: özək (az)
• Belarusian: мякаць f (mjakacʹ)
• Bulgarian: пулп (bg) (pulp)
• Catalan: polpa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 果肉 (zh) (guǒròu)

• Czech: dužina (cs) f, dužnina (cs) f
• Danish: frugtkød
• Esperanto: pulpo (eo)
• Estonian: viljaliha
• Finnish: hedelmäliha (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f
• Friulian: polpe f
• German: Fruchtfleisch (de) n, Fleisch (de) n
• Greek: μεσοκάρπιο (el) (mesokárpio), σάρκα (el) f (sárka)
• Hebrew: צִיפָה (he) f (tzifá)
• Hungarian: gyümölcshús (hu)
• Italian: polpa (it) f
• Japanese: 果肉 (ja) (かにく, kaniku)
• Korean: 과육 (ko) (gwayuk)
• Latvian: mīkstums m
• Lithuanian: minkštimas m
• Maori: kōpuka, karu
• Norwegian: fruktkjøtt
• Polish: miąższ (pl) m
• Portuguese: polpa (pt) f, carne (pt) f
• Romanian: pulpă (ro) f
• Russian: мя́коть (ru) (mjákotʹ)
• Slovak: dreň f, dužina (sk), dužnina (sk) f, mäso (sk) n
• Spanish: pulpa (es) f
• Swedish: fruktkött (sv)
• Tagalog: sapal
• Turkish: et (tr)
• Volapük: pulp, flukapulp

center of a tooth

• Azerbaijani: özək (az)
• Bulgarian: пулпа (bg) f (pulpa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齒髓／齿髓 (zh) (chǐsuǐ), 牙髓 (zh) (yásuǐ)

• Czech: dřeň (cs) f
• Finnish: hammasydin, pulpa (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f
• Greek: πολφός (el) m (polfós)
• Italian: polpa (it) f
• Japanese: 歯髄 (ja) (しずい, shizui)
• Polish: miazga (pl) f
• Portuguese: polpa (pt) f
• Russian: пу́льпа (ru) f (púlʹpa)
• Slovak: dreň
• Spanish: pulpa dentaria f, pulpa dental f

mass of which paper is produced

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紙漿／纸浆 (zh) (zhǐjiāng)

• Finnish: paperimassa (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f
• German: Pulpa (de) f
• Irish: laíon páipéir m
• Japanese: パルプ (ja) (parupu)
• Portuguese: polpa (pt) f, massa (pt) f
• Russian: пу́льпа (ru) f (púlʹpa)
• Spanish: pulpa de celulosa f
• Swedish: pappersmassa (sv) c

mass of chemically processed wood fibres

• Finnish: sellu (fi), selluloosa (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f
• Italian: cellulosa (it) f
• Russian: пу́льпа (ru) f (púlʹpa)

lurid style of writing or publishing

• Finnish: sensaatiojournalismi
• French: (presse) à sensation f
• Hungarian: ponyva (hu), ponyvaregény (hu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} గుజ్జు (te) (gujju), ^{(please verify)} పిప్పి (te) (pippi) (1, 3)

Verb

pulp (third-person singular simple present pulps, present participle pulping, simple past and past participle pulped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or be made into pulp.
2. (transitive, slang) To beat to a pulp.
3. (transitive) To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.

Derived terms

• pulper

Translations

to make into pulp

• Finnish: jauhaa massaksi
• Maori: roroi, whakapē, kōrapu
• Swedish: mosa (sv)

to be made into pulp

• Finnish: jauhautua massaksi

Adjective

pulp (comparative more pulp, superlative most pulp)

1. (fiction) Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.
   • 1997 July 22, Eric Gimlin, “Re: Annual theme '98”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:

     The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a^[sic] incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.

   • 2003 January 3, Mark Wheatley, “Re: PULP 2003 READING”, in alt.pulp‎^[2] (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:

     Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).

Synonyms

• pulpish, pulpy