daddishly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]daddishly (comparative more daddishly, superlative most daddishly)
- In a daddish manner.
- 2007, Mardi McConnochie, Melissa, Queen of Evil, page 157:
- 'I don't believe I've met this young man,' he said, daddishly.
- 2012, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Fresh Meat: The Essential Guide for
New Undergraduatesthe Future Unemployed:- You can usually tell an undercover cop by their woefully inadequate attempts to do party behaviour', i.e. standing in the corner with a Corona bopping daddishly to the Wu-Tang Clan, and randomly sticking both hands in the air and shouting, 'Woo, yeah, great pardeee!'
- 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN:
- You scanned the party daddishly, as if everyone in the room bore some responsibility.