daddyish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]daddyish (comparative more daddyish, superlative most daddyish)
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a father; paternal.
- 2007 May 3, Janet Maslin, “When Love Goes Wrong, Put on the Chicken Suit”, in New York Times[1]:
- Often the nice people are women, and the good fortune arrives in the form of protective, daddyish suitors who enjoy lavishing compliments and Champagne on the objects of their attention.