daddy

English Online Dictionary. What means daddy‎? What does daddy mean?

English

Etymology

From dad +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dăd'i, IPA^(key): /ˈdædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi

Noun

daddy (plural daddies)

1. (usually childish) Father.

   Synonyms: dad, dada, papa, pop; see also Thesaurus:father

2. (informal, with article) A perfect example, a role model.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar

   the daddy of them all
3. (informal, in early use chiefly African-American Vernacular) A male lover.
4. (dated slang) An informal term of address for a man.

5. (BDSM, sexual slang) A dominant male partner, often used as an address.
6. (slang) A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
7. (slang, obsolete) A stage manager.
8. (slang, obsolete) The person who gives away the bride at a wedding, in the absence of her actual father.
9. (slang, obsolete) An accomplice selected to win the prize in a fraudulent raffle or lottery.
10. (slang, obsolete) The man in charge of a casual ward, generally an elderly pauper.

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Translations

References

• Obsolete slang senses: John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Verb

daddy (third-person singular simple present daddies, present participle daddying, simple past and past participle daddied)

1. (transitive, chiefly Appalachia) To father; to sire.

Adjective

daddy (comparative daddier, superlative daddiest)

1. (slang, uncommon) Resembling or characteristic of a dad.

See also

• mom (Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands)
• mommy (Canada, US)
• mum
• mummy

Further reading

• “daddy n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present