What's the difference between daddy and father?

Daddy


Definition:

  • (n.) Diminutive of Dad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameron: Anthony Lansley has my 110% backing … Lansley: That's me out of a job within the next six months then … Clegg: Can I say something, Daddy?
  • (2) In the meditation hall, daddy longlegs dropped from the ceiling, feeding my anxiety.
  • (3) They loved playing and doing things with their daddy and now they will never be able to play with him again.
  • (4) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (5) It's huge and slightly eerie, with one column of light pouring in the top and a hairy wall made entirely of sleeping daddy longlegs.
  • (6) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
  • (7) The Conservatives previously killed off Nick Clegg's demands for a month of dedicated "daddy leave" instead of the current two weeks.
  • (8) "I only do it for people who might understand and appreciate it," she told radio DJ Daddy-O Daylie.
  • (9) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
  • (10) Luckily, I have lots of people I can practise on, to say, ‘Do you understand that phrase?’ and if they don’t they say, ‘What does that mean, daddy?’ You have to put yourself in a child’s shoes.
  • (11) Common issues also included the books being of poor quality, getting basic facts wrong (such as referring to same-sex adopters as mummy and daddy) or being completed by someone who had never met the child.
  • (12) Courtesy the estate of Richard Hamilton They called him "Daddy Pop" but Hamilton was so much more.
  • (13) The last time I went to Laurence’s house he was doing Daddy Daycare so he played me a few songs on his guitar – he’s currently writing music.
  • (14) Click any Facebook post on the Peterson story, any tweet by a major publication on the topic, any newspaper’s comments section – hell, you could probably wait a couple minutes and read the comments here – and you will find someone saying: My daddy whooped the hell out of me, and I turned out fine.
  • (15) But if their daddy did a good job that might make take a second look.” Beau Jackson Jr agreed.
  • (16) Osborne: She's stuck at Heathrow immigration … Clegg: I'm here, Daddy, I'm here … Cameron: So you are.
  • (17) Two-year-old Yishai was covered in blood, saying "wake up, daddy, wake up", according to Goldschmidt.
  • (18) As Wendy explains to her son, "It wasn't your daddy trying to hurt me … the Overlook has gotten into your daddy!"
  • (19) Ali was the daddy of the modern-day wind-up – and he would have been appalled by the behaviour of Chisora and Haye in Munich.
  • (20) Insulin from the principal islets of the teleost fish, Cottus scorpius (daddy sculpin), has been isolated and sequenced.

Father


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
  • (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
  • (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
  • (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.
  • (n.) A senator of ancient Rome.
  • (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc.
  • (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.
  • (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
  • (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.
  • (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
  • (v. t.) To provide with a father.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (2) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
  • (3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (4) My father has never met him but has a different view.
  • (5) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (6) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (7) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (8) I preferred the Times version, as my father would have done had he any interest in Sting.
  • (9) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (10) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (11) Anwar, who was not Sanam's father, admitted to police after his arrest that he put the girl in the cupboard as punishment and said Navsarka punished her in the same way.
  • (12) The dropout rate was only 5% in children whose mothers were educated at the high school level and above compared with 14% in children whose father's education was at this level.
  • (13) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
  • (14) A big majority, 60%, died in hospital; 20% in care homes, like my father; 6% in hospices, like my mother.
  • (15) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
  • (16) Noor Tawane, now a middle-aged father of seven and businessman in the camp, was one of Dadaab’s first residents.
  • (17) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
  • (18) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (19) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imogen and her father, John Hull, before he lost his sight.

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