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pappy

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈpæpi//

Like pap; soft; mushy.

adjective

  1. 1

    Like pap; soft; mushy.

Etymology

From pap + -y.

noun

  1. 1

    A father.

  2. 2

    A grandfather.

Etymology

Etymology tree English papa Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pappy From papa + -y.

Forms

plural
pappies
comparative
pappier
superlative
pappiest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).