Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Papa; father: a childish word.
- Like pap; soft: succulent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like pap; soft; succulent; tender.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like
pap ; soft;succulent ; tender. - noun colloquial, regional
father - noun colloquial, regional
grandfather
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bill Simms -- that's the name pappy kept after the War.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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His pappy was a white man, and no poor white trash neither.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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We didn't had no church, though my pappy was a preacher.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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My pappy was a kind of a boss of the negroes that run the boat, and they all belong to old Master Joe.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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The folks jest called my pappy "Charley Rogers 'boy Joe."
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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I developed it because my pappy was a journalist, and he thought it'd be useful for lectures.
Wired Campus 2010
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I developed it because my pappy was a journalist, and he thought it'd be useful for lectures.
Wired Campus 2010
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That's what Abdul Fostock has to deal with - his pappy is the ex-Tottenham Ayatollah, Omar Bakri Muhammad.
Londonist 2008
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Old Joe thought about it a minute and said: "Well, my pappy was a Democrat and his papppy was a Democrat."
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One of them gave her $500 for her election campaign and his pappy is a former commissioner and he wants Donna to do him a favor.
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