uppies
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- Plural or synonym of uppy (“(childish) act of being held up”).
- 2010 06, Rosalind E. Frascona, So Help Me God: Glimpses and Glimmers of Life, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 191:
- A million moments and first times meshed in the video of my mind. My young, tenderhearted, caring boy, who reached for me to carry him—“Uppies, Mommy, uppies”—down the hallway […]
- 2011 March 16, I. H. Smythe, Poetry for Animals, iUniverse, →ISBN:
- When Daddy Gives Me Uppies
When Daddy gives me uppies / Then I soar just like a plane, / It's bad I weigh five hundred pounds, / But good he has a crane.
- 2012 September 18, Annabel Lyon, The Sweet Girl, Random House Canada, →ISBN:
- How dare he leave me? Then I'm up. I'm up and bathing and dressed and eating a fish on the stone terrace. I'm terribly thin; I hear Thale tell Simon. The baby smiles at me in big surprise and holds her arms up to me. Uppies, uppies!
- 2018 June 26, Freddy MacKay, Angel Martinez, Fireworks and Stolen Kisses, Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD), →ISBN:
- “Mind giving Amelia a ride too? You know how much the kids love your piggyback rides. Plus I think you have a better view of the stage.” Amelia immediately began pulling, asking for “uppies,” and Haru obliged her […]
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