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Daddy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DADDY, n. Father; a word used by infants, from whom it is taken. The first articulations of infants or young children are dental of labial; dental, in tad, dad, and labial, in mamma, papa.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural daddies) Date: 15th century 1. father 1a 2. granddaddy 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) colloq. 1 father. 2 (usu. foll. by of) the oldest or supreme example (had a daddy of a headache). Phrases and idioms: daddy-long-legs 1 a crane-fly. 2 US a harvestman. Etymology: DAD + -Y(3)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Daddy Dad"dy, n. Diminutive of Dad. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(daddies) Children often call their father daddy. (INFORMAL) Look at me, Daddy!... She wanted her mummy and daddy. N-FAMILY

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See dad

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Father. Old daddy; a familiar address to an old man. To beat daddy mammy; the first rudiments of drum beating, being the elements of the roll.

Moby Thesaurus

abba, dad, father, foster father, genitor, governor, old man, pa, pap, papa, pappy, pater, paterfamilias, patriarch, pop, pops, sire, stepfather, the old man