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Pulp   /pəlp/   Listen
Pulp

noun
1.
Any soft or soggy mass.  Synonym: mush.
2.
A soft moist part of a fruit.  Synonym: flesh.
3.
A mixture of cellulose fibers.
4.
An inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper.  Synonym: pulp magazine.
5.
The soft inner part of a tooth.
verb
(past & past part. pulped; pres. part. pulping)
1.
Remove the pulp from, as from a fruit.
2.
Reduce to pulp.  "Pulp wood"



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"Pulp" Quotes from Famous Books



... Political Economy. It had been a wonderful school when Mrs. Propart's nieces went to it. And they kept all that up when the smash came and the butter gave out, and you ate cheap bread that tasted of alum, and potatoes that were fibrous skeletons in a green pulp. Oh—she had seen it through. A whole year and a ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair

... Yorker correspondent gets down to the real art of grape eating. Hear him tell how to manipulate the fruit: No! the man who holds the grape between his thumb and dexter finger and squeezes or shoots the pulp into his throat, does not know how to enjoy the fruit, and is not likely to appreciate the good qualities of a fine grape. Let the berries follow each other into the mouth in rapid succession until ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various

... he said calmly, "that I've thrashed a man to a pulp before now for a good deal less than you have just offered me. It's my special treatment for curs. Suits 'em wonderfully. And suits ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... document to the authorities. On the other hand, some aver that it was over a woman that the pair fell out—over a woman who, to quote the phrase then current among the staff of the Customs Department, was "as fresh and as strong as the pulp of a turnip," and that night-birds were hired to assault our hero in a dark alley, and that the scheme miscarried, and that in any case both Chichikov and his friend had been deceived, seeing that the person to whom the lady had really accorded her favours ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... sugar (or more if the apples are very sour), 1 gill of new milk or half milk and half cream, 1 oz. of Allinson cornflour, and the juice of 1 lemon. Pare, cut up, and stew the apples with the sugar and lemon juice until they are reduced to a pulp. Beat them quite smooth, and return them to the stewpan. Smooth the cornflour with the milk, and mix it with the apples, and stir until it boils; then turn the mixture into a basin to cool. Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs; beat the yolks well, and mix them with the ...
— The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book • Thomas R. Allinson


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