daddy

noun

ˈda-dē How to pronounce daddy (audio)
Definition of daddynext
1
as in dad
a male human parent I stopped calling my father "Daddy" because I thought it sounded childish

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2
as in ancestor
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 daddy Her Instagram shows mostly Hamrick herself, with an occasional shot of her eighty-two-year-old baby daddy and their towheaded nine-year-old, whose set of lips resembles his father’s. — Bob Morris, New Yorker, 15 June 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 While daddy is their superhero, their day must begin and end with their mommy. — Bonnie Gibbs Vengrow, Parents, 3 June 2026 What makes the assets extra special is that the youngest Wayne is wearing a pair of flip-up glasses, just like her daddy made famous in the OG series. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for daddy
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  1. dad
  2. ancestor
  3. father
  4. forerunner
  5. precursor
Noun
  • Does little Arabella care about going to another stuffy awards dinner with her pompous dad?
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
  • My dad was the lobbyist for the state telephone company who worked with the Maryland legislature in the 1960s through the ’80s.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
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  • At some point in the mid-1850s, the river Padma suddenly carved a new path through the village of his ancestors in modern-day Bangladesh, flooding their homes and scattering them across the Indian subcontinent.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
  • All across the United States, federal soldiers rounded up our Native American ancestors like cattle, pushing them into prison camps, many of which later became reservations.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of ancestor
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  • Nessie is a native Londoner born to a Singaporean mother and an Egyptian father.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 July 2026
  • As someone who fed on emotion and belonging throughout his career, Keegan had always felt the pull of Newcastle United, the club of his father.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
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  • The city had a history of assimilating such yearners, most notably Madonna, Swift’s forerunner and her own Middle American transplant success story.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
  • The group, which includes Chrysler, Fiat, Peugeot and Citroen, is becoming a forerunner in the promising progress of a new type of vehicle battery.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 June 2026
Definition of forerunner
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  • Further testing in mice—depleting NAD+ in some mouse placentas, supplementing models of others with NAD+ precursors—cemented the findings.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 20 July 2026
  • This all-night-long event will be the best precursor to OffKai Expo Gen 5.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 20 July 2026
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