daddies

noun

plural of daddy
1
as in dads
a male human parent I stopped calling my father "Daddy" because I thought it sounded childish

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as in ancestors
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed Cook's Tours can be considered the daddy of all organized travel tours

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Recent Examples of daddies Everyone has heard of the ‘crazy cat lady,’ but cat daddies have their own cultural stereotypes. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Vegas is full of bachelor parties, drag revues, Elvis impersonators, wedding chapels, showgirls, leather daddies, casino grandmas, and enough sequins to blind Liberace. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 June 2026 One of the world’s most famous baby daddies is getting a Netflix docuseries to chronicle his hectic life. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 13 May 2026 The options are vast, ranging from Rita Ora vamping on one station and drunk gay daddies being spotlighted on another. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025 Some people's mommies and daddies really, really struggle with money, and that is not something to ever make fun of somebody for. — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025 The baby daddies are family to me. — Jordan Greene, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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  1. dads
  2. ancestors
  3. fathers
  4. forerunners
  5. precursors
Noun
  • Nearly all of our Sexiest Men Alive are also some of the coolest dads around.
    — Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Thank you to all my brothers blocking and having my back and my dads!
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026
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Noun
  • Throughout the region, remains of 5,500 ancestors that were displaced have been made available for return to the Tohono O’odham Nation, according to ProPublica’s NAGPRA database.
    — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026
  • What began as a personal offering to her ancestors evolved into a recognizable symbol of cultural visibility across the city.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of ancestors
Noun
  • Seeking election to the state legislature on Tuesday are some homeschooling mothers, a couple of homeschooling fathers, a grandfather and a recently graduated homeschooled student.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The fathers of both the husband and wife confirmed their identities to the outlet Monday.
    — Stephen Sorace , Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of fathers
Noun
  • Rather than try to replicate his forerunners’ styles of success, Ternus has so far played to his own strengths—which are also those of Apple, a company that first and foremost builds beautiful products that spark productivity, creativity, and joy.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
Definition of forerunners
Noun
  • The company says its indigo process uses soluble precursors that oxidize into insoluble pigment within the textile, avoiding the chemical reduction step used in conventional indigo dyeing.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Should tens of thousands of American lives have been saved as a result of decisions made about fentanyl precursors in China, the implications are massive.
    — J. Travis Donahoe, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026
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“Daddies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daddies. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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