daddish

adj

Etymology

From dad + -ish.

  1. inherited from *dadde
  2. suffixed as daddish — “dad + ish

Definitions

  1. Like a dad

    Like a dad; paternal.

    • 'Then get it now please,' said Dad, and then he sat down in the armchair and opened his newspaper in front of his face in a daddish sort of way. looked under the table.
    • Butthere was one thing I'd always wanted to do, and that was to take a lad to the football. Silly really, but there it is. It seems such a daddish thing to do.
    • He's carving a roast chicken, and he looks daddish in a wholesome coffee-commercial way but still vital.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for daddish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA