1722 J. Verney Let. 8 Aug. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) II. 133 Dear Papy,—I desire You to send for me home..for to see the Duke of Marlborough buried.

1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village 66 Come, be a dear good-natured pappy.

1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians i. xxxiii 257 If they have a wish or fancy, we work day and night to compass it, and 'tis darling daddy and dearest pappy, and whose father is like ours? and so forth.

1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson ix. 119 Young Marse Tom Driscoll's pappy died, en all de Masons en Odd Fellers en Churches turned out en give him de bigges' funeral dis town ever seed.

1909 J. Joyce Let. 29 July (1966) II. 230 All are delighted with Georgie, specially Pappie.

1991 R. Mistry Such Long Journey (1992) 39 Remember when her pappy was Prime Minister and he made her president of Congress Party?

1807 E. S. Barrett All Talents 52 A giant sputt'ring pappy from the spoon.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Pappy,..the female breast.

1597 C. Middleton Famous Hist. Chinon vi. sig. G4 The poore inhabitants of this pappy Kingdome, that ioyed to see their neighboring lands dispoyled of such riche rewardes.

1809 W. 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.

1856 Harper's Mag. Aug. 419/1 Nature's productions are commonplace and mawkish, pappy and finnikin.

1932 W. E. D. Allen Hist. Georgian People xiii. 155 The pappy Da'ud sent frightened appeals to the Turks.

1968 Times 30 Sept. 9/1 It will be a miracle if this pappy production causes the trade unionists and ideologues assembled at Blackpool to forget what is eating them.

2003 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 1 Apr. (Technol. Post section) 2 Those of us who want more for our money than pappy pop tunes or cartoon wallpapers, will naturally gravitate to Wi-Fi.

1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis xxv. 52 The mouth of the stomack: where is made the first concoction, that is, the turning of the meat & drink taken in into a chyle, (white pappy substance).

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 386 I saw it [sc. his head] swell'd in severall places: some of the Swellings were big and pappy.

1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 137 A sward of their roots laid over a very pappy mud.

1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 95 The musa paradisaica, or banana tree,..is of a vivid green, soft and pappy, insomuch that the juice spurts out on the least pressure.

1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 103 A pappy potato, salted in the boiling.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 402 Bread crumbs and milk in fine pappy condition.

1970 Gloucestershire Life Sept. 37/3 Pears go sleepy if they dry up, and pappy if squashy.

1991 C. Hill Tack: Care & Cleaning 12 Quality leather is pliable and flexible and will not crease or crack. It has high-tensile strength and is firm, not soft or pappy.