daddy
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i verb (used with object)
3.
Chiefly Appalachian. to father or sire.
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| —n , pl -dies | |
| 1. | an informal word for father |
| 2. | slang chiefly (US), (Canadian), (Austral) the daddy the supreme or finest example: the daddy of them all |
| 3. | slang the dominant male in a group; boss; top man |
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Daddy
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is peculate. Does it mean:
| to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle. |
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
daddy
c.1500, colloquial dim. of dad. Daddylonglegs is from 1814; daddy-o is first recorded 1949, from bop talk.
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Slang Dictionary
(grand)daddy (of them all) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
Galactic collisions are the grand-daddy of catastrophes, but asteroid impacts are much more common.
Horror is a genre obsessed with the evil daddy-thing.
Daddy will always pick him as his successor over the moe qualified business school grad.
As statues of daddy and grandpa were common in the corner of any proper house, many survive today.
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