pappy adj.
(US) old, esp. exhibiting the signs of the old.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Big Con 212: I never saw an old pappy con man. | |
| Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 169: What’s come over these young people, Digger, while we been chasing pappy thugs? |
In compounds
(US tramp / und.) an old man.
 | Our Rival, the Rascal 195: The aged victims -who are usually selected as marks for the ‘gold brick’ trick and its dependent schemes of robbery - are technically known as ‘Pappy Guys’ in the lingo of bunco. | |
| Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 69: Say, he’s a nice, kind, old pappy guy. [Ibid.] 138: He trimmed the beards of the old ‘poppa guys,’ as he disrespectfully termed the various soiled old men. | |
| Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. i: Some old pappy guy out in Chi was making a noisy fuss that the chorus ladies stay up too late nights. | |
| White Slavery 113: And what makes these pest holes possible? A lot of old licentious papy guys. | |
| ‘A Nice Price’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 194: There is an old pappy guy with a chin whisker. | |
| (con. 1920s) South of Heaven (1994) 47: An old pappy guy, which is what they call any old man on a pipeline. |