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
- green chemistry
- greenchop
- green circle
- Green Cloth
- green-coat
- green-coated
- green cod
- green-collar
- green consumerism
- green cormorant
- green corn
- green crab
- green crop
- green cross
- Green Cross Code
- green curry
- green curry paste
- green curtain
- green dragon
- green drake
- green dressing
- green drought
- Greenean
- green earth
- green ebony