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Examples of daddy in a Sentence
I stopped calling my father “Daddy” because I thought it sounded childish.
Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours.
Recent Examples of daddy from the Web
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With her arm looped through her nephew's, their fingers woven together, Vance carefully crossed the uneven terrain, passing the graves of her mama and daddy, her grandmama and granddaddy.
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The eight women do their thing on the Sunday night series while their star athlete men — be they boyfriends, baby daddies, husbands or exes — do their thing on the field.
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The movie doesn't yet have a release date. 'The Glass Castle' writer Jeannette Walls on the movie version of her difficult life with daddyJeannette Walls has to be careful with pronouns.
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Not on the basis of your skin color, not on the basis of where your daddy was born.
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White Sox Tim Anderson enjoyed some quality daddy-daughter time.
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In a video that was posted on LadBaby, a popular U.K. daddy blog, begins with dad blogger Mark Hoyle and his wife hoping for some alone time.
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Two Louisville magicians will be honored at the grand-daddy of all magic conventions this month in Louisville.
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The daddy vest is retired now, but the date vest fits pretty well.
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First Known Use of daddy
1523
daddy Synonyms
Synonyms
dad, father, old man, pa, papa (also poppa), pater [chiefly British], pop, sireAntonyms
descendant (also descendent)Related Words
paterfamilias, patriarch; father figure, father image; stepfatherNear Antonyms
by-product, derivative, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off; daughter, sonDADDY Defined for English Language Learners
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