daddy's girl
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6.2
- noun
- Informal
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niña de papá
- Are you Daddy's girl?
- always been a daddy's girl
- know you're a daddy's girl
- daddy's girl, her mother said
Examples
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You're a little daddy's girl.
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Yes, I was a daddy's girl.
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You called me a daddy's girl.
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Well, you were always Daddy's girl.
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And I too was a daddy's girl, so I had that balance.
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And she is a daddy's girl.
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I'm a total daddy's girl.
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She was such a daddy's girl.
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She's a tough little daddy's girl.
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As a daddy's girl, Emily always felt her father's support and love.
Surface Forms
Morphology
daddy's + girl
The phrase is a simple possessive construction: a learner who knows 'daddy' (father) and 'girl' can readily infer 'a girl associated with her father' and thus understand the sense of being especially close or fond of her father. This composition follows a common, cross-linguistic possessive pattern and requires no idiomatic or metaphorical leap, so it is transparently interpretable by B1 learners.
Etymology
Daddy's girl may come from the simple image of a father who loves and protects his daughter so much that the words daddy and girl make her seem 'his' little girl. That's why it now means a girl or woman who is especially 'close to' and fond of her father.