Definition of "pappy" [pap•py]

• Of or resembling pap; mushy. (adjective)
• Informal Father. (noun)

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• "Bill Simms -- that's the name pappy kept after the War."
• "His pappy was a white man, and no poor white trash neither."
• "The folks jest called my pappy "Charley Rogers 'boy Joe.""