DADDY
What does "DADDY" mean?
An informal, affectionate word for one's father, used especially by children.
Meanings
- A father, especially as addressed by a young child. The toddler ran across the room shouting for her daddy. informal
- The dominant or originating example of something; the best or biggest of its kind. That storm was the daddy of all the season's blizzards. informal
Did you know?
- 'Dada' isn't borrowed between languages - it's reinvented: babies worldwide produce simple sounds like 'da-da' first, so unrelated languages independently landed on near-identical words for father, as linguist Roman Jakobson explained.
Word origin
A reduplicated nursery word from 'dad', which appears across many unrelated languages because 'da-da' is among the easiest sounds for infants to form.
Remember it
DADDY = DAD + DY; just add a 'DY' tail to dad, like a child stretching the word out.
A little poem
First sound the mouth makes-
a door swings somewhere, footsteps,
the whole house grown safe.
haiku
What it teaches
The first word a child can shape often names the thing they trust the most.
Quick facts
What does DADDY mean?
An informal, affectionate word for one's father, used especially by children.
Is DADDY a valid word?
Yes — DADDY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DADDY?
DADDY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does DADDY come from?
A reduplicated nursery word from 'dad', which appears across many unrelated languages because 'da-da' is among the easiest sounds for infants to form.
What can DADDY teach us?
The first word a child can shape often names the thing they trust the most.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.