poppa
/ˈpɒpə
/noun North American
Informal term for father. [as name]: oh, Poppa will be pleased...
- Give poppa a hug and send some more money this way.
- She smiled at Kurt and said softly, ‘Babies always look like their poppas.’
- It seems proud poppas are the same the world over.
Origin
Late 19th century: alteration of papa.
Rhymes
- fixed wheel
- fixed-wing
- fixer
- fixer-upper
- fixie
- regular guy
- regularise
- regularity
- regularity theory
- regularization
- regularize
- regularizer
- regularly
- regularness
- regular session
- regular verb
- regulatable
- regulate
- regulated company
- regulated tenancy
- regulater
- regulation
- regulationist
- Regulation movement
- regulation roll