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daddy

see also: Daddy

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Noun

daddy (plural daddies)

(usually, childish) Father.
(informal) A male lover.
- 1955, Ray Charles, Greenbacks
  She looked at me with that familiar desire
  Her eyes lit up like they were on fire
  She said, "My name's Flo, and you're on the right track,
  But look here, daddy, I wear furs on my back,
  So if you want to have fun in this man's land,
  Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands."
(dated slang) An informal term of address for a man.
Rock 'n' roll is cool, daddy, and you know it!
(slang) A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
- 2004, David Wilson, ‎Sean O'Sullivan, Images of Incarceration (page 162)
  However, what is of interest is that it is clear that the staff have to use the prisoners to run the borstal and thus do not object to, or try to control the inmate subculture that produces 'daddies', violence, sexual assault and racism, […]
- 2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang
  The daddies were the chaps of the old borstal system, leaders who had clawed their way to the top of the borstal food chain by showing gameness and the ability and willingness to inflict serious violence on their fellow detainees.

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daddy

(chiefly, Appalachia) To father#Verb|father; to sire.
- 1997, Larry L. King, True Facts, Tall Tales, and Pure Fiction (ISBN 9780292743298):
  Grieving apparently wasn't a full-time job, however, since Hank up and married a gal named Billie Jean and daddied a daughter by yet another consoler.

Daddy

Proper noun

(colloquial, childish) One's father.
- 2008, Betty Wagner Loeb, Jenny's Family Circle (page 26)
  Jenny's voice broke. “Daddy told me that she and Joey, my baby brother, were killed when I was two.”

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