pappy
Example Sentences
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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
