daddie
English edit
Noun edit
daddie (plural daddies)
- (often Scotland) Alternative form of daddy
- 1908, Ethel Turner, In the Mist of the Mountains[1]:
- "No," said Pauline sadly, "they've gone to New Zealand,--mamma got quite ill with nursing us, and daddie got it too, and he wouldn't come up here."
- 1894, Hall Caine, The Manxman[2]:
- "Come to your ould daddie, you lil sandpiper.
- 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3)[3]:
- Says--"Carterhaugh it is mine ain; "My daddie gave it me; "I'll come and gang to Carterhaugh, "And ask nae leave o' thee."