daddy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dad
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English daddy
From dad + -y (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: daddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daddie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
often
form: daddies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: daddying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: daddied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daddied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Father.
pos: noun
tags: childish
usually
gloss: A perfect example, a role model.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: the daddy of them all
[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.
gloss: A male lover.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 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."
gloss: A sexually attractive man, particularly—but not exclusively—a father or an older man.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: An informal term of address for a man.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: Rock 'n' roll is cool, daddy, and you know it!
gloss: A dominant male partner, often used as an address.
pos: noun
examples: The guy I've been dating offered to do bondage with me, and I was like "Yes please, daddy."
The very attractive Daddy-type in the harness and cap.
gloss: A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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, […]
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.
gloss: A stage manager.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: The person who gives away the bride at a wedding, in the absence of her actual father.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: An accomplice selected to win the prize in a fraudulent raffle or lottery.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: The man in charge of a casual ward, generally an elderly pauper.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: To father; to sire.
pos: verb
tags: Appalachia
transitive
examples: "Just supposin' Mister has daddied a pup here and there," said old man Rivers. "What's wrong with that? Ain't your foxhounds han'some and hard-runnin'?" "But they all pint birds," said my Pa. "Whoever heered of a foxhound pintin' birds?"
Grieving apparently wasn't a full-time job, however, since Hank up and married a gal named Billie Jean and daddied a daughter by yet another consoler.
Related words: dadbod
Derived words: baby-daddy
baby daddy
big daddy
boo 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
granddaddy
grand-daddy
harder daddy
high-daddy
hodaddy
mack daddy
mummy daddy
nobodaddy
salt daddy
shadow daddy
sky daddy
skydaddy
Splenda daddy
stepdaddy
sugar daddy
the daddy of them all
war daddy
who's your daddy
zaddy
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