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daddy

daddy

192 8.9
An older man people call attractive in romantic or sexual talk
  • noun
  • /ˈdædi/
  • NSFW
translation icon : sugar daddy
  • Many younger women prefer dating an older man who they can call daddy.
  • sugar daddy

Being a jaddy, being a zaddy, being a daddy is all state of mind.

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Examples

  • Baby stood up, reached down for her purse, and looked at me, "Ready, Daddy?" I told her I was.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • One of my girlfriends calls me daddy all the time.

  • Do you like being called daddy by our fans?

  • I go to leave and it's like, Daddy, hi.

  • So he just wants me to be his daddy and his frenemy.

  • I'll be the daddy.

  • She found him attractive and secretly referred to him as daddy in her texts.

  • With his charming personality and good looks, he was often dubbed the daddy of the group.

Synonyms

sugar daddy
vsdaddy
  • NSFW
16 7.4

An older rich man who gives money and gifts to a younger person for romantic or sexual attention

is an attractive older man used in dating without implying payment

Compounds

16 7.4

An older rich man who gives money and gifts to a younger person for romantic or sexual attention

big daddy
  • Slang
1 8.1

An important person who makes key decisions for a group

1 3.6

A large fly with very long legs that looks like a mosquito but does not bite

A small animal like a spider, not a fly, with a round body and very long thin legs

sky daddy
  • Slur
9.9

A joking or insulting name for a god that people say when they doubt its help

Surface Forms

daddy singular
daddies plural

Morphology

daddy = dad (semi-transparent) = dad + y

Formally derived from 'dad' + '-y', but the slang/sexualized meaning ('attractive older man') is a pragmatic shift that is not predictable from the familial sense alone.

Etymology

Daddy is also used in slang to mean an attractive older man. A helpful way to remember this is that it borrows the family sense of dad meaning 'father' and the idea of 'care', so it suggests someone older who is strong, kind, or protective.