pappy
1 Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pappy1
First recorded in 1670–80; pap 1 + -y 1
Origin of pappy2
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t like I was on the road all the time with my pappy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
And he told my pappy, just as straight as my pappy had told him, ‘Freedom is a yoke, boy. You’ll soon see.’
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
That’s because he’s not the real player on that team; his pappy is.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2018
Spindly, with a pappy interior, a tendency towards floppiness and not a trace of skin.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2012
She didn’t seem to care and started singing again: “Happy, happy, happy, clap your feet, Happy, sappy, pappy, blow your nose, Biddy-boddy-bowdee, jump and jump.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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
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