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- proper noun informal one's
grandfather
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Examples
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My Pappy is the most authoritative critic in … the … world!
Bobby Parkerchuk, tweeting from Monkton, NJ | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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I called my Pappy from the Lincoln Diner in Gettysburg, on my way back from hiking on the Appalachian Trail this weekend…
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Pappy is the only main character who has no narrative voice.
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If I have to go elsewhere to be allowed to continue to expand the works of the one known as Pappy, I will do it.
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If I have to go elsewhere to be allowed to continue to expand the works of the one known as Pappy, I will do it.
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William Faulkner, who she called Pappy, became her legal guardian.
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But as Pappy -- John Ford let me call him 'Pappy' -- told me, 'We all steal from god-damn near everybody.'
Archive 2006-03-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Yes Pappy is still vertical and no matter the extent of the wealth, 10 figures or 12 that doesn’t mean W is going to ever see much of it directly.
Matthew Yglesias » Bush Joins the Ranks of the Unemployed 2009
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How many people have said "My Pappy was a Republican, My Granpappy was a Republican, and so am I!"
Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr; John McCain's Ralph Nader? With Poll 2008
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The Amurican people are scared shitless of the cops, the military, the landlords, the "terrerists" now meaning anybody who looks suspicious of something--anything--IT DOESN'T MATTER, the IRS, the Pentagon, Condo-Leasing Rice, Rummy, Unka Dick, and certainly Little Georgie Porgie Puddin' Pie--nobody can call his Pappy a wimp.
How to Siegheil the Proper, Respectful Way The Daily Growler 2006
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