What's the difference between papa and pappy?

Papa


Definition:

  • (n.) A child's word for father.
  • (n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
  • (2) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
  • (3) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
  • (4) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
  • (5) Papa Massata Diack, who is the licensed agent for negotiating sponsorship deals in developing markets, has stepped down from his position as an IAAF marketing adviser until an ethics commission investigation into the doping claims has been completed.
  • (6) Why not just bite the bullet and say, ‘OK, let’s do a completely different way of funding’ rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation.” Armando Iannucci interview: 'We didn't want Alpha Papa to be the equivalent of Holiday on the Buses' Read more Iannucci’s idea, outlined in his Bafta lecture, was for the BBC to aggressively market itself with paid-for subscription abroad – “prostitute itself to blue buggery” – which would help subsidise subscription services in the UK at a lower level than the current licence fee.
  • (7) I half expected it to end with the Houser brothers dressed as Papa Lazarou from League of Gentlemen staring into the camera and whispering seductively, "you all live in Los Santos now".
  • (8) Those being scrutinised include Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who resigned as a marketing executive after being accused of involvement in corruption aimed at covering up doping scandals in Russia, and Valentin Balakhnichev, a former IAAF treasurer who left his post as president of the Russian athletics federation after similar allegations were made against him.
  • (9) His papa, Adriano, whose father’s second cousin was Lorenzo Buffon, a goalkeeper for Milan in the 50s, had already been pushing him to try playing in goal.
  • (10) The product formed from pApA was shown to behave like 5'-O-pyrophosphoryladenylyl-(3'-5')-adenosine (ppApA) on hydrolysis with alkaline phosphatase, potassium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid.
  • (11) E. coli expressing the papA-I genes produce pili that mediate specific adhesion to mammalian cells.
  • (12) So, we have to be very clear that this is a very, very difficult time for our sport.” The French sports daily L’Equipe has also raised questions about meetings in Moscow hotels in 2011 between Valentin Balakhnichev, the president of the Russian athletics federation and an IAAF council member, a legal adviser to the IAAF named Habib Cisse and Massata Papa Diack – the son of Lamine Diack, president of the IAAF.
  • (13) The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl.
  • (14) Two cistrons, papB and papI, were localized upstream of the major pilus subunit gene, papA.
  • (15) I love the fact that whenever she sees of football she says ‘Papa’.
  • (16) A sequence immediately downstream of the papA coding region may serve as a stability determinant for the papA transcript and concomitantly attenuate read-through transcription into the minor pilus subunit gene papH.
  • (17) The French sports daily L’Equipe has also raised questions about meetings in Moscow hotels in 2011 between Balakhnichev, the IAAF legal adviser Habib Cissé and Massata Papa Diack.
  • (18) Infants in every condition showed recovery of head turning to a novel posttest stimulus (papa).
  • (19) The easiest way to get there is to ask a local fisherman if he can take you over from Papa Westray.
  • (20) The German broadcaster ARD claimed it had evidence a €300,000 refund to Shobukhova from the Russian federation – after she had been banned for failing a test – was channelled through a Singapore-based company called Black Tidings, which was owned by a Chinese business partner of Papa Massata Diack.

Pappy


Definition:

  • (a.) Like pap; soft; succulent; tender.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That said, a year or two ago I watched Pappy’s gleeful sketches (on a stage about a mile away) at Latitude and it seemed like something stretching back to music hall.
  • (2) I remember my frustration at the early work of Pappy’s Fun Club (couldn’t stand it), Sara Pascoe ( “tapering waffle” , I wrote) and James Acaster ( “man-childish and underpowered” ) – all of whom went on to bona fide comedy greatness.
  • (3) Elsewhere, hardy perennials Beasts – directed as ever by Pappy’s lord of misrule Tom Parry – present Mr Edinburgh 2016, a sketch show masquerading as a (sports?
  • (4) Maybe only the Founding Pappy on our dollar bill, slaveowner and “slave catcher” George Washington?
  • (5) The restaurant's long beer list – and much-heralded barbecue – cannot be ignored, but the pride is the long list of bourbons, including Colorado brands and the sought-after Pappy Van Winkle, a Kentucky variety so rare a Wall Street Journal article referred to it as "unobtanium" .
  • (6) I remember speaking to Seann Walsh a few months before Edinburgh, and he had seen a new Pappy's sketch that was based on a fictional relationship between Ben and a member of the audience.
  • (7) The dinky, bespectacled star of sketch troupe Pappy's , Matthew Crosby, as a professional wrestler?
  • (8) In the technique using a plastic matrix the plastic powder Palgat is brought on the face after mixing it rapidly with icewater until it appears pappy.
  • (9) The excision repair system of Escherichia coli did not operate on semi-quinone-modified RF DNA but removed about half of the ortho-quinone adducts [van Maanen JMS, Lafleur MVM, Mans DRA, van den Akker E, de Ruiter C, Koostra PR, Pappie D, de Vries J, Retèl J and Pinedo HM, Biochem Pharmacol 37: 3579-3589, 1988].
  • (10) Pappy's had been nominated for the Fosters award, but missed out on winning it.
  • (11) I've had this feeling at shows like Tim Key's Slutcracker and Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie, but never more so than when I went to see Pappy's: Last Show Ever.
  • (12) Josh Widdicombe Josh Widdicombe: 'Pappy's Last Show Ever took them to a new level.'
  • (13) Pappy's have always been a brilliant sketch group, but Last Show Ever took them to a new level.