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Definition: Daddy |
DaddyNoun1. An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "daddy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | DADDY. 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. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DaddySynonyms: dad (n), dada (n), pa (n), papa (n), pappa (n), pater (n), pop (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Daddy |
| English words defined with "daddy": Arachnida ♦ class Arachnida ♦ Father longlegs ♦ Harvest spider ♦ Phalangoidea ♦ Shephered spider. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "daddy": The old man. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "daddy": Phalangoidea. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Welcome to hard times, Daddy. (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) Daddy, are we lost (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt) I named him after his daddy. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) That's why I don't have no partner, that's one thing I learned from my daddy. (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) | |
Lyrics | No luv for my daddy, cause tha coward wuzn't there (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Gonna talk to you my daddy say ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith) Twenty inches pop my feather, The Bird man daddy (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers) And your Daddy don't approve (Living In Sin; performing artist: Bon Jovi) Just like your daddy, he's a brown eyed handsome man (Brown Eyed Handsome Man; performing artist: Chuck Berry) | |
Clever | T-shirt: My heart belongs to Daddy...and so do my credit cards! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Daddy Day Care (2003) Darling Daddy (1968) My Daddy One Day (1968) Big Daddy (1965) Mummy Daddy (1963) | |
Song Titles | Sugar Daddy (performing artist: The Jackson Five) Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast (performing artist: Wayne Newton) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | My Baby Brother has AIDS and Now he's too Sick to play with me anymore... : Daddy, Why?. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Daddy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Please lie down, Daddy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hello, Daddy!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Pailful for Daddy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | My daddy bought me a government bond of the Third Liberty Loan--Did yours? / The United States Printing & Lithograph Co., New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | My daddy bought me a government bond of the Third Liberty Loan--Did yours? / The United States Printing & Lithograph Co., New York. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Glen Campbell | You got me. I never drank when I was a kid, because if you did, you know, daddy would wear the back side of your pants out. |
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| "Daddy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.82% of the time. "Daddy" is used about 2,038 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.82% | 1,606 | 5,168 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.18% | 432 | 13,298 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,038 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "daddy": daddy long legs ♦ daddy longlegs ♦ daddy of them all ♦ sugar daddy ♦ the daddy of them all. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "daddy": daddy-longlegs, daddy-long-legs, daddy-o, daddy-substitutes. | |
Ending with "daddy": grand-daddy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
daddy step | 2,045 | gay daddy | 104 |
trick daddy | 1,934 | daddy and daughter | 103 |
puff daddy | 1,875 | daddy diddy p puff | 95 |
care daddy day | 856 | daddy no | 78 |
daddy | 732 | daddy day care movie | 70 |
big daddy | 530 | puff daddy picture | 57 |
go daddy | 524 | daddy little slower walk | 56 |
daddy yankee | 412 | fry daddy | 54 |
daddy poem | 361 | daddy p | 54 |
daddy long leg | 260 | bone daddy | 52 |
big bad voodoo daddy | 251 | daddy o | 49 |
whos your daddy | 204 | baby daddy | 48 |
sugar daddy | 189 | daddy hitman lyrics sam sammy step | 46 |
big daddy kane | 157 | daddy lyrics yankee | 46 |
trick daddy lyrics | 155 | daddy howard | 43 |
puff daddy lyrics | 135 | ed big daddy roth | 43 |
daddy bear | 115 | daddy joke yo | 42 |
daddy long leg spider | 114 | daddy holiday lyrics thug trick | 41 |
big daddy weave | 112 | daddy little straighter walk | 41 |
daddy lyrics step | 106 | movie big daddy | 40 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "daddy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | babë (dad, pa, pop, Poppa), baba (dad, father, pa, Papa, pater, paterfamilias, pop, Poppa, sire). (various references) | |
Arabic | بابا بلغة الأطفال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | татко (dad, father, pa, pop), татенце, тате (dad, pa, pop). (various references) | |
Chinese | 爸爸 (Dad, DADS). (various references) | |
Czech | tatínek (dad, Papa). (various references) | |
Dutch | pappie (dad), pappa (dad), pa (dad). (various references) | |
Esperanto | paĉjo (dad). (various references) | |
Faeroese | pápi (dad). (various references) | |
Farsi | بابا(ز.ع.-عنوان خودمانی dad). (various references) | |
French | papa (dad). (various references) | |
German | Vati (dad, pa, Papa), papa (dad, pa, Papa, pop). (various references) | |
Greek | μπαμπάς (dad), πατερούλησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אבא (dad, father). (various references) | |
Hungarian | apu (dad), papa (dad, pa, Papa, pater, pop). (various references) | |
Indonesian | papa (destitute, father, poor), bapak (dad, father, papa), ayah (begetter, dad, father). (various references) | |
Irish | daidí, daid. (various references) | |
Italian | pap (dad, pa, Papa, pop, pope). (various references) | |
Korean | 아 (Dad, DADS). (various references) | |
Manx | jishag (pa, papa), jeyd, jeddog, jed? (shall go? priest? clergyman? pa), gedjig. (various references) | |
Papiamen | papi (dad), papá (dad), pai (dad). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addyday.(various references) | |
Polish | tatuś (dad). (various references) | |
Portuguese | papai (dad, father, pa, papa, poppa). (various references) | |
Romanian | tatã (daddie, father, governor, parent, pop), tãtic (dad, pa, Papa, Pappy). (various references) | |
Russian | папочка (dad, pa 2), папа (dad, pa, pa 2, papa, pop, pope). (various references) | |
Scottish | daidein. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tatica (pappy), tata (dad, papa, pop, poppa). (various references) | |
Spanish | papá (dad, pa, papa, Pappy). (various references) | |
Swedish | pappa (dad, father, pa, Papa, Pappy, pater, pop, Poppa). (various references) | |
Thai | ชายหน้าตา"ี (freak daddy). (various references) | |
Turkish | baba (begetter, dad, father, goodman, governor, guv, guvnor, old man, pa, Papa, pater, Pere, pop, senior, sire, the governor, the old man). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | татусь (dad), тато (dad, pap). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thầy (dad), cha (dad, father, parent, paterfamilias, patresfamilias), bố (dad, pa). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "daddy": grandaddy, granddaddy, hodaddy. (additional references) | |
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"Daddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Addey, adedy, dadda, D'adda, Daddi, Daddie, daddin, daddio, daddry, dadds, daddt, daddyo, dadi, dadly, dadod, da-dt, Dady, Daldry, Datd, dawdy, ddd, Diadie, diddi, diddy, didi, didy, didya, dirdy, doddy, Doddyda, Drady, duddu, duddy, Haddy, Ndadaye, raddy, taddy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "daddy" (pronounced da"dē) |
| 3 | -a" d ē | caddy, Paddy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-y" | |
-1 letter: dyad. | |
-2 letters: add, dad, day. | |
-3 letters: ad, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-d-y" | |
+2 letters: addedly, hodaddy. | |
+4 letters: grandaddy. | |
+5 letters: daydreamed, degradedly, dehydrated, granddaddy. | |
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