paw paw

plural paw paws

1. alternativeAlternative form of pawpaw, grandfather.

   Her paw paw was threatening to kill Gordon. Poor Gordon; he had too much women trouble. Annette got pregnant, and they signed for them to get married. When Ellen Mae heard about this, she came back to town to see if she could still get ...

   2012, B.J. Young, A Piece of Man Is Better Than No Man: A Work in Progress, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 69

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   As soon as Khi put Baby on the floor she started yelling for her paw paw. Wallace came out of his office with a huge smile on his face. “Who is that yelling for their paw paw?” He asked. Although Baby just learned to walk but that never stopped ...

   2010, Kimmi Illuminati, Daddy's Girl, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 302

   Georgia had taken him out to her paw paw's land, where the old house had fallen into ruin. “What are y'all going to do with this?” he'd asked, looking around at the fifteen acres and dilapidated house covered in vines. “Dunno,” Georgia said ...

   2014, Liz Talley, Kim Law, Terri Osburn, Cowboys for Christmas, Penguin, →ISBN

1. A village in Lee County, Illinois, United States.
2. A ghost town in Miami County, Indiana, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States, named after the common pawpaw.
4. A village, the county seat of Van Buren County, Michigan, United States. Named after the pawpaw trees which grew along the Paw Paw River.
5. A ghost town in Sullivan County, Missouri, United States.
6. A small town in Morgan County, West Virginia, United States, named after the pawpaw.

plural Paw Paws

1. Alternative letter-case form of paw paw (“pawpaw, grandfather”).

   Dick protests, "She's a good kid," and maintains that he doesn't want to "get mixed up with her." Paw Paw answers, […]

   1987, Peter Griffin, Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 28

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   Mommy suddenly said, “She has been saying that today, and I thought she was saying it so she wouldn't have to eat her lunch!” Calie looked at her Mommy. Then she looked at her Paw Paw.

   2011, Snookie Hodge, Sandbox Treasures: A New Home for Buzzy Bee, and Other Short Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4

   […] and beguiled her “Paw Paw” Ben with her wit and charm. She had long brown blond hair and gorgeous dark brown eyes with pale, almost see-through skin like her mother.

   2013, Jacchi Machito, A Woman Named Jacchi, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 63