What's the difference between daddy and papa?

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.

Papa


Definition:

  • (n.) A child's word for father.
  • (n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
  • (2) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
  • (3) "I've been praying and praying to Papa," Nan cried, "but it feels like He isn't listening."
  • (4) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
  • (5) Papa Massata Diack, who is the licensed agent for negotiating sponsorship deals in developing markets, has stepped down from his position as an IAAF marketing adviser until an ethics commission investigation into the doping claims has been completed.
  • (6) Why not just bite the bullet and say, ‘OK, let’s do a completely different way of funding’ rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation.” Armando Iannucci interview: 'We didn't want Alpha Papa to be the equivalent of Holiday on the Buses' Read more Iannucci’s idea, outlined in his Bafta lecture, was for the BBC to aggressively market itself with paid-for subscription abroad – “prostitute itself to blue buggery” – which would help subsidise subscription services in the UK at a lower level than the current licence fee.
  • (7) I half expected it to end with the Houser brothers dressed as Papa Lazarou from League of Gentlemen staring into the camera and whispering seductively, "you all live in Los Santos now".
  • (8) Those being scrutinised include Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who resigned as a marketing executive after being accused of involvement in corruption aimed at covering up doping scandals in Russia, and Valentin Balakhnichev, a former IAAF treasurer who left his post as president of the Russian athletics federation after similar allegations were made against him.
  • (9) His papa, Adriano, whose father’s second cousin was Lorenzo Buffon, a goalkeeper for Milan in the 50s, had already been pushing him to try playing in goal.
  • (10) The product formed from pApA was shown to behave like 5'-O-pyrophosphoryladenylyl-(3'-5')-adenosine (ppApA) on hydrolysis with alkaline phosphatase, potassium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid.
  • (11) E. coli expressing the papA-I genes produce pili that mediate specific adhesion to mammalian cells.
  • (12) So, we have to be very clear that this is a very, very difficult time for our sport.” The French sports daily L’Equipe has also raised questions about meetings in Moscow hotels in 2011 between Valentin Balakhnichev, the president of the Russian athletics federation and an IAAF council member, a legal adviser to the IAAF named Habib Cisse and Massata Papa Diack – the son of Lamine Diack, president of the IAAF.
  • (13) The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl.
  • (14) Two cistrons, papB and papI, were localized upstream of the major pilus subunit gene, papA.
  • (15) I love the fact that whenever she sees of football she says ‘Papa’.
  • (16) A sequence immediately downstream of the papA coding region may serve as a stability determinant for the papA transcript and concomitantly attenuate read-through transcription into the minor pilus subunit gene papH.
  • (17) The French sports daily L’Equipe has also raised questions about meetings in Moscow hotels in 2011 between Balakhnichev, the IAAF legal adviser Habib Cissé and Massata Papa Diack.
  • (18) Infants in every condition showed recovery of head turning to a novel posttest stimulus (papa).
  • (19) The easiest way to get there is to ask a local fisherman if he can take you over from Papa Westray.
  • (20) The German broadcaster ARD claimed it had evidence a €300,000 refund to Shobukhova from the Russian federation – after she had been banned for failing a test – was channelled through a Singapore-based company called Black Tidings, which was owned by a Chinese business partner of Papa Massata Diack.

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