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popsy

popsy noun: grandfather.

Noun (1)

popsy (plural popsies)

  1. (informal) Grandfather.
  2. (informal) Father.
    • Dear Popsy,
    • I need your help. Mother writes that if I don't return the leg immediately she will come to the school and take it by force. You must stop her, Popsy.2013, Eric Bishop-Potter, Dear Popsy: Collected postcards of a private schoolboy to his father, Troubador Publishing, page 51

Noun (2)

popsy (plural popsies)

  1. (UK, dated, slang) A girl.
    • Pilots are often interested in nothing but popsies, kites, and beer.1943, H. E. Bates, There's Something in the Air
    • Your wife will be pleased to be taken to a lovely hotel and out on the river for breakfast. Your popsy won’t. She’ll take it as her due.2000 May 14, Michael Bywater, “One man in a boat – but who should he take?”, in The Independent on Sunday, number 536, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel section, page 1, column 4

Forms of popsy

pluralpopsies
alternative formpopsie

Origin of popsy

From pop + -sy (hypocoristic suffix), compare pops.

Perhaps from poppet + -sy (hypocoristic suffix).

Questions about popsy

What does popsy mean?
Popsy means grandfather.
What part of speech is popsy?
Popsy is a noun.
What is the plural of popsy?
The plural of popsy is popsies.

Words near popsy in the dictionary

  1. popstream
  2. popstrel
  3. popstrels
  4. popstress
  5. popstresses
  6. popsy
  7. popt
  8. poptail
  9. poptails
  10. poptart
  11. poptarts

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