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Synonyms & Antonyms of daddy
1
a male human parent
- I stopped calling my father "Daddy" because I thought it sounded childish
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2
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
Synonyms for daddy
- ancestor,
- antecedent,
- archetype,
- foregoer,
- forerunner,
- granddaddy
- (also grandaddy),
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- prototype
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Antonyms for daddy
- descendant
- (also descendent)
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The ‘Zaddy’ of All Words
The ‘Zaddy’ of All Words
When he's so fine it makes you say 'zamn.'
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The first known use of daddy was in 1523
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