(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Example Sentences:
(1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
(4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
(6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
(10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
(12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
(15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
(16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
(18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
(20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
Pappa
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We have reviewed the results in 37 patients with unilateral congenital short femur (Pappas classes III to IX), treated by different lengthening procedures.
(2) Indeed the lack of trust suggests that funds will be drip-fed to Greece and that a longer-term agreement will be very difficult to reach.” According to local media Tsipras has called an emergency meeting with top ministers to discuss the situation, including chief negotiator Euclid Tsakalotos, the deputy prime minister, Yannis Dragasakis, and the state minister, Nikos Pappas.
(3) Greece’s state minister Nikos Pappas hit back at criticism of the putative deal on Tuesday night.
(4) Taylor arrived in Rome with a large entourage consisting of one husband, three children, five dogs, two cats, various secretaries and dozens of servants, and settled at the Villa Pappa, a 14-roomed mansion off the Via Appia.
(5) Large increases in coupling resistance are associated with separation of junctional membranes (Pappas et al.
(6) Signalling that debt was now the name of the game, Tsipras’s close ally and minister of state, Nikos Pappas, insisted that resolution of the vexed issue was now vital to reaching a viable agreement at a political level given that the medicine prescribed so far had failed so dramatically.
(7) We don’t know who will be sent back on Sunday: people who really said they didn’t want to apply for asylum, or people who wanted to apply but couldn’t,” Pappa said.
(8) Larsen and Pappas reported that, in young kittens, the end bulb of Held (EBH) terminal was distinguished by excessive density at apposing synaptic membranes which assume gradually the pattern observed in adult cats.
(9) A critical issue was whether their doctor – who saw both Lynette and Pappas – should have passed on information that the intervention order had been breached.
(10) At the free-of-charge, drop-in play group in Malmö that is my morning refuge, the pappas often outnumber the mammas.
(11) Photograph: Maria Pappa Over the past few years, the modern inhabitants of Stagira have been even more energetic, and Aristotle is fast becoming a big attraction in Halkidiki.
(12) As a result, the under-staffed Greek authorities may not be aware of all those who want to claim asylum in Greece, said Lora Pappa, the president of METAdrasi, a charity that provides refugees with legal and humanitarian assistance .
(13) Every latte pappa I've spoken to talks of how much closer their bond is with their children compared to how it would have been if they were a weekend and evening parent.
(14) I assure you that the deal will be such that it will win the backing of the government majority and of the Greek people,” Pappas told Greece’s Mega TV.
(15) We demand from the parrots of the system who have linked Golden Dawn with this particular phrase to revoke [their stance] immediately, otherwise they will suffer the legal effects [that come with] dissemination of false news and slanderous defamation.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Video of Greek parliamentary session Hours later, minutes taken during the session revealed the offending phrase had been uttered not by the neo-Nazi party’s spokesman, Christos Pappas, as initially believed, but Christos Panztas, an MP with the far-left Syriza, the country’s main opposition party.
(16) RIP Pappa Parf December 24, 2016 The Surrey-born guitarist had been dogged by health concerns for years, most recently pulling out of the band’s tour after a heart attack over the summer.
(17) This argument is absolutely false,” said state minister Nikos Pappas, one of Tsipras’s closest aides.
(18) Pappas said he was confident parliament would back a deal.
(19) Earlier today, GD announced that a rally will take place on Saturday to demand the release of Mihaloliakos, Pappas and Lagos.
(20) Jacques de Watteville, Switzerland’s lead diplomat for international tax and banking affairs, met the Greek minister of state, Nikos Pappas, to hammer out a deal.