popsy
Americannoun
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popsies
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of popsy
1860–65; generic use of a term of endearment, probably pop(pet) + -sy
Example Sentences
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With that sort of mind-blowing work load, the FCC, according to its critics, has all but given up and become a popsy of the industry it is supposed to regulate.
From Time Magazine Archive
I didn't mean to give way to it, popsy dear.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
"Oh, I don't care anything about it, popsy," she cried, fighting to think of him and to speak to him as simply the living father she had always insisted on seeing.
From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips
"I might have known," reflected she, "that popsy would see through it all."
From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips
Bless his pretty heart for a popsy wopsy toodelums.
From The Cat and Fiddle Book Eight Dramatised Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Performers by Lady Florence Bell
It was all too clear that the presence of popsies does not inevitably lead to a scientific future.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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