baby papa
- noun
- Slang
:
padre de mi hijo
- I'm Penny's baby-papa.
Examples
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The baby papa often takes care of their child on the weekends.
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She introduced him as her baby papa during the family gathering.
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James is the baby papa of Alex, even though they are not married.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A man who has a child
∞
1.0
A man who is your father
∞
1.0
An informal name a child uses for their father
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8.2
A person's father, used as a friendly name
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9.0
A father or grandfather someone calls in a loving way
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1.6
An informal word a child uses for their father
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8.5
A warm word some families use for father or grandfather
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8.2
A father's informal name
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9.1
A young child's word for father
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8.2
A familiar loving name a child uses for their father
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8.1
A word children use for their father
A friendly name for your father
A father who is the main adult in a family
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun combination is largely compositionally interpretable: a learner who knows 'baby' and 'papa' can infer it refers to the father of a baby. However, the phrase is colloquial/dialectal and carries pragmatic connotations (often implying unmarried parents) that are not predictable from the constituent meanings alone, so full communicative nuance requires exposure.
Etymology
Baby papa may come from casual speech where baby means a child and papa means father, creating a clear image of 'the child's dad'. That's why people use baby papa to mean a man who is the father of a woman's child, often when they are not married.