sugar baby
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sugar baby (plural sugar babies)
- The younger recipient (usually female or a bottom) of interest from a sugar daddy or sugar mama, especially financial and romantic in an intergenerational relationship.
- Synonyms: kept man, kept woman, concubine, mistress
- 2005, Aaron Peckham, Urban dictionary: fularious street slang defined, page 300:
- If you're a rich man and your woman pays attention to you only when she wants your credit card, you're bein' played by a sugar baby!
- 2008, Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy[1]:
- Sugar daddies prefer to think of it as a special friendship in which they provide gifts and help to a deserving young woman. And sugar babies convince themselves that a nice boyfriend should want to help out with his girlfriend, and in return she would naturally want to show her appreciation by spending time with him.
- 2009, Brandon Wade, Seeking Arrangement, page 223:
- Diary of a Sugar Baby by American Geisha Day One After eight years of post-divorce dating trauma, I'd had enough, and decided to search for a Sugar Daddy on SeekingArrangement.com.
- 2009, Cindy M. Meston, David M. Buss, Why women have sex, page 179:
- There is even a Web site devoted to rating the quality of sugar daddy / sugar baby Web sites!
- 2025 July 29, Jesse McKinley, quoting Srushti Upadhyay, “David Geffen’s Divorce Gives New Meaning to Hypergamy”, in The New York Times[2]:
- “Some sugar babies will refer to themselves as not sugar babies, but that they’re just dating hypergamously,” Ms. Upadhyay said.
- 2026 April 29, Louis Staples, “Tradwives, sugar babies and OnlyFans: Euphoria’s misogyny feels like the manosphere’s wet dream”, in The Guardian[3], →ISSN:
- Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schafer) dropped out of art school to be a full-time “sugar baby,” where she goes on dates with older men who give her money to fulfil their sexual fetishes.
- A term of endearment; sweetheart.
- 1926, John Steinbeck, The Saturday Evening Post[4], volume 198:
- "Sugar baby, daddy not only shot you — he tried to kill you!" A look of sweet ecstasy came into the wounded lady's eyes.
Translations
[edit]recipient of interest from a sugar daddy or sugar mama
sweetheart — see sweetheart