pappies
- plural of pappy.
Example Sentences
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If a family can name its pappies and grandpappies for 300 years back, we call it an "ancient" family.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chillen was mostly seen, not heard, different from youngens of today talking backward and foward cross their mammies and pappies.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves Virginia Narratives by Work Projects Administration
