Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather. [Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:]
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papaw
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Editorial note
Holes might not really exist, but hollers definitely do, because that's where my papaw lived.
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Quick take
Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather. [Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:]
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of papaw gathered in one view.
(less common) A father.
A tree, Carica papaya, native to tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, that produces dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for papaw.
noun
Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather. [Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:]
See also: papaw-tree, asimina-triloba, pawpaw
noun
(less common) A father.
See also: papaw-tree, asimina-triloba, pawpaw
noun
A tree, Carica papaya, native to tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, that produces dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
See also: papaw-tree, asimina-triloba, pawpaw
Example sentences
Holes might not really exist, but hollers definitely do, because that's where my papaw lived.
For the unrelated tropical papaya fruit often called 'papaw' or 'pawpaw', see Carica papaya.
What papaw was saying up above was creating an elisp compiler for common lisp will make it portable to native code via sbcl and hosted code via sbcl.
Also, papaw replaces /proc/self/exe with an empty file.
Wikipedia says the name is colour related:in Australia, these are called "red papaya" and "yellow papaw".
According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]." So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.
While I don’t expect DLink to support every router indefinitely, there has to be a reasonable number of years, maybe the feds should set one and have the machine let the user know “you are outside of security time length and you are now easily attacked by hackers” for papaw and memaw.
From the Wikipedia article you linked to: "The name Pawpaw or Papaw, first recorded in print in English in 1598,[8] originally meant the giant herb Carica papaya or its fruit (as it still commonly does in many English-speaking communities, including Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa).
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Wikipedia says the name is colour related:in Australia, these are called "red papaya" and "yellow papaw".
According to Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary, it began to be used [presumably in North America] "from 1760 to designate the papaw tree" [meaning not Carica papaya but Asimina triloba]." So the original pawpaw is papaya, and the American pawpaw is the imposter.
While I don’t expect DLink to support every router indefinitely, there has to be a reasonable number of years, maybe the feds should set one and have the machine let the user know “you are outside of security time length and you are now easily attacked by hackers” for papaw and memaw.
From the Wikipedia article you linked to: "The name Pawpaw or Papaw, first recorded in print in English in 1598,[8] originally meant the giant herb Carica papaya or its fruit (as it still commonly does in many English-speaking communities, including Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa).
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use papaw in a sentence?
Holes might not really exist, but hollers definitely do, because that's where my papaw lived.
What does papaw mean?
Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather. [Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:]
What part of speech is papaw?
papaw is commonly used as noun.