pappy1
/ˈpapi
/noun (plural pappies) [usually as name]
A child’s word for father: Pappy was always busy...
- Jane was the first child of Ransom and Emily Hicks, and said about her early years, ‘My pappy were a minister, name of Ransom Hicks.’
- I suppose my daughter will remember one day that she went to the opening of Shrek with pappy, and that's nice.
Origin
Mid 18th century: from papa + -y2.
Rhymes
pappy2
/ˈpapi/adjective
Of the nature or consistency of pap: pappy desserts...
- It had to be suffered and endured by rote learning and sing-songy renditions of pappy rhymes or the impenetrable stanzas of a tortured and deluded soul.
- You'd think that being contracted to churn out songs like a musical sausage machine, would lead to a cacophony of trite pappy pop.
- Dons need to be respectful, yes, but they're paid to be appraising, and to encourage critical rather than pappy faculties.
- intestinally
- intestine
- intestines
- in that
- in that case
- in that event
- in the abstract
- in the act of
- in the affirmative
- in (the) aggregate
- in the air
- in the altogether
- in the ascendant
- in the bag
- in the balance
- in the belief that
- in the blink of an eye (or in a blink)
- in the box seat
- in the buff
- in the business of
- in the cactus
- in the can
- in the cart
- in the catbird seat
- in the cause of