What's the difference between daddy and poppa?

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.

Poppa


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And looks like there's another proud poppa in the house.

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