pappy
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It wasn’t like I was on the road all the time with my pappy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
And he told my pappy, just as straight as my pappy had told him, ‘Freedom is a yoke, boy. You’ll soon see.’
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
That’s because he’s not the real player on that team; his pappy is.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2018
They're such cliches, so pappy and unoriginal, that they've always washed over me, like the sound of Justin Bieber or someone reading the lottery numbers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013
“Come on, old dude. Your pappy give you a good thing and you want to fight it.”
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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If a family can name its pappies and grandpappies for 300 years back, we call it an "ancient" family.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Chillen was mostly seen, not heard, different from youngens of today talking backward and foward cross their mammies and pappies.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves Virginia Narratives by Work Projects Administration