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▪ I. papa1|pəˈpɑː|
Also 8 pappa.
[a. F. papa, in 1552 pappa (Hatz.-Darm.) = It. pappa ‘the first word that children are taught to call their Father by, as ours say Dad, Daddie, or Bab’ (Florio 1598, 1611), L. pāpa father, papa; cf. Gr. πάππας, later πάπας ‘a child's word for father’. From F. also Ger. papa, introduced in 17th c. as papà, and at first only in courtly use, passing into common use late in 18th c. In Eng. in 17th and early 18th c. the form varied between paˈpā and ˈpappa; from the latter the American ˈpoppa.]
1. A word employed as the equivalent of father: chiefly used in the vocative, or prec. by a possess. pronoun (as ‘my papa’); also without any article in the manner of a proper name (e.g. ‘I will ask Papa’); less usually with a or in pl.
At its first introduction from Fr., courtly and polite, and used even by adults; long considered ‘genteel’; but more and more left to children, and in second half of 19th c. largely abandoned even by them.
1681Otway Soldiers Fort. i. (1683) 7 Oh Papa, Papa! where have you been this two days, Papa? 1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. I. 57 The Maid..in her usual fawning Language calls him dear Papa [ed. 1720 Pappa]. 1720–1Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 74 Not her Husband, but her Pappa. 1731Swift Strephon & Chloe, The bashful nymph no more withstands, Because her dear papa commands. 1765Foote Commissary ii. Wks. 1799 II. 26 The right honourable Peer that is to be my pappa..has flatly renounc'd the alliance. 1782F. Burney Cecilia vi. v, May be he thinks it would not be pretty to be very frisky, now he's a papa. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Baby's Debut i, Papa (he's my papa and Jack's) Bought me, last week, a doll of wax, And brother Jack a top. Ibid. v, And while papa said, ‘Pooh, she may!’ Mamma said, ‘No, she shan't!’ a1845Hood Stage-Struck Hero vii, Genteelly taught by his mamma To say, not father, but papa. 1862Thackeray Philip xxi, Papa-in-law was well enough, or at least inoffensive. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 186 How papa and mamma took this new vagary, I have no recollection.
2. transf.
a. A woman's lover or husband. U.S. slang.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 261, I blew out and rung in with a couple of penny-weighters. A Tommy and his papa... I left them and went with two expert thieves who make it a practice to rob jewelers, a woman and her lover. 1926L. Hughes in New Republic 14 Apr. 223/2, I met a yellow papa, He took my last thin dime... I give it to him cause I loved him But I'll have more sense next time. 1942― Shakespeare in Harlem 107 That's one time, pretty papa, You'll sure stay in your place. You was a mighty lover and you Ruled me many years. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 375 Papa, a male lover.
b. Phr. tell papa, confide in the speaker.
1929E. Wallace Red Aces v. 48 ‘Tell papa,’ he said. 1961A. Christie Pale Horse xvi. 166 ‘Come now, tell Papa’, said the odious Bradley.
3. attrib. or as adj., paternal.
1900‘S. Grand’ Babs (1901) lxxv. 350 So long as he does not assume papa airs with me, I don't mind.
▪ II. ‖ papa2 Obs.|ˈpɑːpə|
[In sense 1, a. med.L. pāpa, ultimately a. Gr. πάππας, πάπας father, later παπᾶς: see prec. In sense 2, a. med.L. pāpa as translating πάπας, παπᾶς.
The Gr. and L. words (meaning ‘Father’) were, like the latter, and mod. Romanic padre, addressed or applied to spiritual fathers; in the West at first to bishops generally (as in Prudentius and Gregory of Tours), but gradually confined to the Bishop of Rome (see pope); in the East, in the form παπᾶς, applied more widely, so as to include the lower clergy. In this sense also sometimes rendered in Eng. by ‘pope’.]
1. The pope (of Rome).
[1555in Hakluyt's Voy. (1810) II. 476 Prester John whom some call Papa Johannes.] 1559in Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. ii. App. viii. 424 In what age the name of papa had his original. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. To Rdr., Wks. 1888 I. 59 The successour of Petir, now commonlie callit Papa: albeit Papa be a terme efter the myndis of the aunciant Fatheris commoun to ony bischope, as efter in this buik is schawin. 1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 19 Here lies Iohn Bridges late Bishop, friend to the Papa. 1813Moore Post-bag iv. App. 298, I made thee Cardinal—thou mad'st me—ah? Thou mad'st the Papa of the World—Mamma! 1851Borrow Lavengro xlix. (1893) 193 Their spiritual authority had at various times been considerably undermined by the emissaries of the Papa of Rome, as the Armenian called him. 1861Stanley East. Ch. iii. (1869) 98.
2. A parish priest or any member of the lower orders of the clergy in the Orthodox Eastern Church. Also in Gr. form papas.
1591G. Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakluyt Soc.) 111 Their priestes (whom they call papaes) are made by the bishops. 1679Sir P. Ricaut Pres. St. of Gr. & Armen. Ch. 92 From the Monasteries he receives a certain annual Income or Rent..and from every Papa, or Priest, a Dollar yearly per Head. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 71 The Oriental Christians as well as the Turks, call Papa's all manner of Ecclesiastical Persons that Officiate in Holy Orders, whether Single or Married. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 83 While the Papas says some Prayers, the Godfather and Godmother hold a Garland of Flowers. 1775Wraxall Tour North. Europe 237 The papas or priests are dressed in vestments which very much resemble the Romish. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. note, He..boxed the ears of the first ‘papas’ who refused to assist. 1897Daily News 30 Mar. 6/1 Cyprian was now Papa, Papas or Pope of Carthage, and he at once began, like the Apostle Paul, to magnify his office.
▪ III. papa3|ˈpɑːpɑː|
[Maori.]
A soft bluish clay or mudstone found in the North Island of New Zealand.
1873J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands xi. 183 We descended a steep slide into..a river with a bed of papa rock. 1892E. S. Brookes Frontier Life xvii. 150 The country [Taranaki]..is principally composed of papa rock. 1905J. M. Thomson Bush Boys N.Z. ix. 62 That Papa Rock is beastly stuff to slip... The Papa Rock, of which many of the cliffs in the bush country in New Zealand are formed, is really a very hard blue clay. 1909G. H. Scholefield N.Z. in Evolution i. 12 Papa country produces the readiest crops of grass. 1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush xxiii. 239 The track..has dented a passage upon the soft pa-pa rock. 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira ii. 9 The materials of which the station is formed are marl or ‘papa’, sandstone, sandy marl, limestone, and conglomerate. 1949F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiii. 128 Nearly all the soil had slipped away and left only great faces of papa. 1969― Joy of Worm iii. 105 The river had been willing..to slide in casual ripples over slabs of papa, as though to look more closely at a tiny curve of beach.
▪ IV. papa
obs. form of pawpaw. |