daddy
Forms
- Plural
- daddies
- Comparative
- daddier
- Superlative
- daddiest
- present (v1)
- daddy
- past (v2)
- daddied
- past participle (v3)
- daddied
- present participle
- daddying
- 3rd person singular
- daddies
Definitions
1.Also used as a term of address: a father; one's father.(informal)
- Come to your ould daddie, you lil sandpiper.
- Right-o, daddy. I'll come along. When do we go over?
- By saynt Mary, my lady, / Your mammy and your dady / Brought forth a godely babi!
2.Often used as a term of address: a dominant male sexual partner.(informal)
- The guy I’ve been dating offered to do bondage with me, and I was like “Yes please, daddy.”
- It wasn't long after this that the very attractive Daddy-type in the harness and cap gave everyone a demonstration in the Sensual Application of Clothespins with yours truly as the model.
3.An older masculine sexual partner, especially one who is more sexually dominant; specifically, one who prefers younger partners.(informal)
4.Often in the form the daddy of: the most important or influential man in a field or group; a doyen.(informal)
1.To father (a child); to beget, to sire.(informal)
- "Just supposin' Mister [a dog] 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'?"
1.Characteristic of or resembling a dad or father.(informal)
- He's the daddiest dad I've ever had.
- Stark flinched and fired, and he wished, instead, that he'd held the revolver in the kid's face, telling the frightened boy to drop his rifle in the loudest, deepest, daddiest voice he could muster.
- In 1989, Hollywood brought us Field of Dreams, one of the daddiest dad movies ever. Kevin Costner plays a New Age dad whose relationship with his remote, old-school father had been difficult at best.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2041
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Etymology tree
English dad
Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-
Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English daddy
The noun is probably derived from dad (although this word is attested later) + -y (diminutive suffix).
The verb is derived from the noun.