Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to daddy
Participle: daddied
Gerund: daddying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | daddy |
| you | daddy |
| he;she;it | daddies |
| we | daddy |
| you | daddy |
| they | daddy |
Perfect
| I | have daddied |
| you | have daddied |
| he;she;it | has daddied |
| we | have daddied |
| you | have daddied |
| they | have daddied |
Past
| I | daddied |
| you | daddied |
| he;she;it | daddied |
| we | daddied |
| you | daddied |
| they | daddied |
Pluperfect
| I | had daddied |
| you | had daddied |
| he;she;it | had daddied |
| we | had daddied |
| you | had daddied |
| they | had daddied |
Future
| I | will daddy |
| you | will daddy |
| he;she;it | will daddy |
| we | will daddy |
| you | will daddy |
| they | will daddy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have daddied |
| you | will have daddied |
| he;she;it | will have daddied |
| we | will have daddied |
| you | will have daddied |
| they | will have daddied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | daddy |
| you | daddy |
| he;she;it | daddy |
| we | daddy |
| you | daddy |
| they | daddy |
Perfect
| I | have daddied |
| you | have daddied |
| he;she;it | have daddied |
| we | have daddied |
| you | have daddied |
| they | have daddied |
Imperfect
| I | daddied |
| you | daddied |
| he;she;it | daddied |
| we | daddied |
| you | daddied |
| they | daddied |
Pluperfect
| I | had daddied |
| you | had daddied |
| he;she;it | had daddied |
| we | had daddied |
| you | had daddied |
| they | had daddied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would daddy |
| you | would daddy |
| he;she;it | would daddy |
| we | would daddy |
| you | would daddy |
| they | would daddy |
Perfect
| I | would have daddied |
| you | would have daddied |
| he;she;it | would have daddied |
| we | would have daddied |
| you | would have daddied |
| they | would have daddied |
Imperative
| you | daddy |
| we | Let's daddy |
| you | daddy |
Verbs conjugated like 'daddy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'daddy'
caddy,
waddy,
add,
adde,
bandy,
buddy,
candy,
dad,
daddle,
dade,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English dad
3. Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-
4. Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī
5. Old English -iġ
6. Middle English -y
7. English -y
8. English daddy
9. The noun is probably derived from dad (although this word is attested later) + -y (diminutive suffix).
10. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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"Just supposin' Mister [a dog] has daddied a pup here and there," said old man Rivers. "What's wrong with that? Ain't your foxhounds han'some and hard-runnin'?" [1964 October, Havilah Babcock, “Something of a Ladies’ Man”, in Jaybirds Go to Hell on Friday and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →OCLC, page 85:]
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Well, it seems that Franklin Ransom had him a girlfriend in nigger holler all along, even when me and him were going out so much together, yes all that whole long time. […] Franklin had daddied two little nigger babies on her, so they say. [1988, Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 184:]
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[…] Hank [Williams] wrote all those tearjerkers while mourning his own wandering wife, Miss Audrey. Grieving apparently wasn't a full-time job, however, since Hank up and married a gal named Billie Jean [Horton] and daddied a daughter by yet another consoler. [1997, Larry L[eo] King, “Cheatin’ Songs”, in True Facts, Tall Tales, & Pure Fiction (The Southwestern Writers Collection Series), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Tall Tales), page 127:]