daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dăd'i
ipa: /ˈdæd.i/
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: daddies
form: daddie
Etymology: From dad + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: synonyms: word: dad
word: dada
word: papa
word: pop
word: ayr
word: ba
word: baba
word: da
word: dad
word: dada
word: daddio
word: daddy
word: father
word: Father
word: fatherling
word: old man
word: pa
word: pap
word: papa
word: papaw
word: pappaw
word: pappy
word: Pappy
word: pater
word: patriarch
word: paw
word: pawpaw
word: peepaw
word: pepaw
word: pop
word: poppa
word: poppy
word: pops
word: sire
glosses: Father.
examples: text: the daddy of them all
text: [Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.
ref: 2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: archetype
word: byspel
word: case
word: case in point
word: embodiment
word: epitome
word: eponym
word: exemplar
word: exemplification
word: example
word: exemplificator
word: Exhibit A
word: illustration
word: incarnation
word: instance
word: prototype
word: quintessence
word: representative
word: sample
word: specimen
word: symbol
word: ur-type
glosses: A perfect example, a role model.
raw_tags: with article
examples: text: She looked at me with that familiar desire
Her eyes lit up like they were on fire
She said, "My name's Flo, and you're on the right track,
But look here, daddy, I wear furs on my back,
So if you want to have fun in this man's land,
Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands."
ref: 1955, Ray Charles, Greenbacks:
glosses: A male lover.
raw_tags: in early use chiefly African-American Vernacular
synonyms: DILF
glosses: A sexually attractive man, particularly—but not exclusively—a father or an older man.
examples: text: Rock 'n' roll is cool, daddy, and you know it!
glosses: An informal term of address for a man.
examples: text: The guy I've been dating offered to do bondage with me, and I was like "Yes please, daddy."
text: The very attractive Daddy-type in the harness and cap.
ref: 1988 May 7, Christopher Wittke, “It Takes Two To Tango”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
qualifier: sexual slang
glosses: A dominant male partner, often used as an address.
examples: text: However, what is of interest is that it is clear that the staff have to use the prisoners to run the borstal and thus do not object to, or try to control the inmate subculture that produces 'daddies', violence, sexual assault and racism, […]
ref: 2004, David Wilson, Sean O'Sullivan, Images of Incarceration, page 162:
text: The daddies were the chaps of the old borstal system, leaders who had clawed their way to the top of the borstal food chain by showing gameness and the ability and willingness to inflict serious violence on their fellow detainees.
ref: 2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang:
glosses: A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
glosses: A stage manager.
glosses: The person who gives away the bride at a wedding, in the absence of her actual father.
glosses: An accomplice selected to win the prize in a fraudulent raffle or lottery.
glosses: The man in charge of a casual ward, generally an elderly pauper.
Derived terms: baby-daddy
baby daddy
big daddy
crawdaddy
daddy diaper party
daddy dom
daddyhood
daddy hundred
daddyish
daddy issues
daddykins
daddyless
daddy-long-legs
daddy-o
daddy-oh
daddy shower
daddy stitch
dollar of the daddies
grand-daddy
granddaddy
harder daddy
high-daddy
hodaddy
mack daddy
mummy daddy
nobodaddy
salt daddy
shadow daddy
skydaddy
sky daddy
Splenda daddy
stepdaddy
sugar daddy
the daddy of them all
war daddy
who's your daddy
zaddy
Related terms: dadbod