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▪ I. pappy, n.1|ˈpæpɪ|
Also pappie.
[dim. of papa.]
A child's pet-name for ‘father’.
1763Bickerstaff Love in Village 66 Come, be a dear good-natured pappy. 1782F. Burney Cecilia vi. viii, O no, Pappy has a world of business to settle first. 1897‘Ouida’ Massarenes xx, Now they were doing the same with poor pappy. 1909Joyce Let. 29 July (1966) II. 230 All are delighted with Georgie, specially Pappie. 1918― Exiles 20 Do you want to speak to my pappie? 1929W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. iv. 206 Whut you hear, pappy? 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xx. 130 My pappy used to say, ‘Drink Scotch by itself, with rye mix a little water.’ 1963M. Duggan in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 109 Fanny never chattered much and less than ever in the presence of her pappy. 1978D. Bagley Flyaway xxix. 280 He wanted to find his Pappy's airplane.
▪ II. pappy, n.2
[dim. of pap n.2]
A nursery equivalent of pap n.2 (also dial. of pap n.1).
1807E. S. Barrett All Talents 38 A giant sputt'ring pappy from the spoon.
▪ III. pappy, a.|ˈpæpɪ|
[f. pap n.2 + -y.]
Of the nature or consistence of pap; soft and wet.
1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 386, I saw it [his head] swell'd in severall places: some of the Swellings were big and pappy. 1762Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 137 A sward of their roots laid over a very pappy mud. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 103 A pappy potato, salted in the boiling. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 402 Bread crumbs and milk in fine pappy condition.
b. fig. Feeble in character, ‘milk-and-watery’.
1809W. Blake Descr. Catal. No. 9 There would soon be an end of proportion and strength, and it would be weak, and pappy,..and thick-headed, like his own works. 1893G. Allen Scallywag I. 67 You..left me to talk half the day to that pappy, sappy, vappy big Englishman.
c. Comb., as pappy-headed.
1828Southey Ep. to A. Cunningham, An honest fellow of the numskull race; And, pappier-headed still, a very goose. |