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Definition of Pappies
1. pappy [n] - See also: pappy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pappies
Literary usage of Pappies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"... pappies, quiet old guardians, and fifth-act uncles. He was always scrupulously
perfect, but could no more go out of his way, even to the alteration of a ..."
2. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1868)
"He was the usual representative of gray- headed pappies, quiet old guardians,
and fifth act uncles. He was always scrupulously perfect, but could no more go ..."
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