A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
A short form of ‘papa’, used by children in some families to address their father.
The habit may be continued into adulthood. The term occurs fairly frequently in nineteenth-century literature, less so in more recent novels. It can be qualified, as in ‘pa darling’, used by a daughter to her father in George Beneath a Paper Moon, by Nina Bawden.
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