dadliness

English

Noun

dadliness (uncountable)

The quality of being dadly.
- 1998 June 21, Peter Jensen, “Sometimes, mom is a dad”, in The Sun, Baltimore, Md., page 7m:
  Dadliness: Bill Cole meets Elise at the school bus with Brenna and Will (top), and later celebrates mom Marianne’s birthday.
- 2000 August 31, Spuddie, “cool web experiment 5756”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet):
  >>her dad for some weird reason has / >>decided she shouldn't dye her hair anymore / > / >Prolly because it makes him think he's raising chrysanthemums, not / >daughters. <g> / Well, her hair is normally a dark brown color so what the red dye does is just add auburn highlights to it...it's not a really obnoxious change and I thought looked very nice myself. He's just exercising his omnipotent Dadliness I guess. *shrug*
- 2008 July 12, “Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce, read by Daniel Ryan; Macmillan, 6hrs, £16.99”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,621, page 31:
  What are dads for? This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly.
- 2009 June 6, “Flight of fantasy ode to oldies”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,902, page W13:
  Gradually, through coping with Florida’s tantrums and his fellow fathers’ foibles, he acquires and understanding of what “dadliness” (as he calls it) is all about.
- 2010 February 14, Mary Harris Russell, “Visionary teen tries to escape prison world”, in Orlando Sentinel Sunday, page F8:
  He returns, but not before a funny and often profound exploration of how parents and children behave, and of the essence of “dadliness.”
- 2020 June 18, Lindsay Zoladz, “I’m Not a Dad, but I Rock Like One”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  He was more prescient than he realized: A month later, Pitchfork — the very site that had given Wilco a 5.2 rating for committing the sin of dadliness — cleared its slate of new album reviews one Wednesday and declared it Steely Dan Day, publishing five re-evaluations of the group’s “most influential records.”