popsy

plural popsies · alternative popsie

1. informalGrandfather.
2. informalFather.

   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

plural popsies · alternative popsie

1. UKdatedslangA girl.

   Pilots are often interested in nothing but popsies, kites, and beer.

   1943, H. E. Bates, There's Something in the Air

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   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