Dad
or Daddy. Father. The person who acts as father at a
wedding, a stage-manager. The superintendent of a casual ward is
termed by the inmates “Old Daddy.” (A Night in a Work-house, by an
Amateur Casual [J. Greenwood].)
In the Fortunes of Nigel, by Sir W. Scott, Steenie, Duke of
Buckingham, calls King James “My dear dad and gossip.” (Welsh, tad;
Irish, daid, father; Sanskrit, tada; Hindu, dada.)
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