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語源

From 中期英語 pulpe, from Latin pulpa.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /pʌlp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pʊlp/, /pʌlp/
• (Northern England) IPA: /pʊlp/
• 韻: -ʌlp, -ʊlp

名詞

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

      • 2024 September 6, Ceri Sullivan, “Shakespeare’s Will, Lambswool, and Puck’s Joke”, in Notes and Queries, volume 71, number 4, Oxford University Press, →DOI, page 406:

        These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink.

   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. (figurative) 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.

同意語

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

下位語

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

派生語

動詞

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

1. (ambitransitive) 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.

派生語

形容詞

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 (Usenet), message-ID <33D504B4.105@swbell.net>:

     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 incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.

   • 2003 January 3, Mark Wheatley, “Re: PULP 2003 READING”, in alt.pulp‎ (Usenet), message-ID <3E159FC7.70409@insightstudiosgroup.com>:

     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).

同意語

• pulpish, pulpy