DADDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daddy mean? 

• DADDY (noun)
  The noun DADDY has 1 sense:

1. an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

  Familiarity information: DADDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DADDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dad; dada; daddy; pa; papa; pappa; pop

Hypernyms ("daddy" is a kind of...):

begetter; father; male parent (a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father))

 Context examples 

What is the price of daddy's thumbs, boys?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We're soaked in general culture, and if our daddies went broke to-day, we'd be falling down to-morrow on teachers' examinations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Our business is with the Scots,” quoth the elder; “for it was the Scots who cut off daddy's string fingers and his thumbs.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)