Paw Paw

See also: paw-paw

English

Proper noun

Paw Paw

1. A village in Lee County, Illinois, United States.
2. A ghost town in Miami County, Indiana, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States, named after the common pawpaw.
4. A village, the county seat of Van Buren County, Michigan, United States. Named after the pawpaw trees which grew along the Paw Paw River.
5. A ghost town in Sullivan County, Missouri, United States.
6. A small town in Morgan County, West Virginia, United States, named after the pawpaw.

Noun

Paw Paw (plural Paw Paws)

1. Alternative letter-case form of paw paw (“pawpaw, grandfather”).
   • 1987, Peter Griffin, Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 28:

     Dick protests, "She's a good kid," and maintains that he doesn't want to "get mixed up with her." Paw Paw answers, […]

   • 2011, Snookie Hodge, Sandbox Treasures: A New Home for Buzzy Bee, and Other Short Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4:

     Mommy suddenly said, “She has been saying that today, and I thought she was saying it so she wouldn't have to eat her lunch!” Calie looked at her Mommy. Then she looked at her Paw Paw.

   • 2013, Jacchi Machito, A Woman Named Jacchi, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 63:

     […] and beguiled her “Paw Paw” Ben with her wit and charm. She had long brown blond hair and gorgeous dark brown eyes with pale, almost see-through skin like her mother.