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▪ I. dad, n.1 colloq.|dæd|
Also 6–7 dadd(e.
[Occurs from the 16th c. (or possibly 15th c.), in representations of rustic, humble, or childish speech, in which it may of course have been in use much earlier, though it is not given in the Promptorium or Catholicon, where words of this class occur.
Of the actual origin we have no evidence: but the forms dada, tata, meaning ‘father’, originating in infantile or childish speech, occur independently in many languages. It has been assumed that our word is taken from Welsh tad, mutated dad, but this is very doubtful; the Welsh is itself merely a word of the same class, which has displaced the original Celtic word for ‘father’ = Ir. athair.]
1. A childish or familiar word for father: originally ranking with mam for mother, but now less typically childish. Cf. daddy.
a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 43 Cayme. I will..Speake with my dadde and mam also..Mamme and dadd, reste you well! [Of uncertain date: the MS. is only of 1592. Harl. MS. of 1607 reads (ii. 678) ‘sire and dam’, (ii. 681) ‘father and mother’.] 1553Wilson Rhet. 31 Bryngyng forthe a faire child unto you..suche a one as shall call you dad with his swete lispyng wordes. 1590Greene Never too late (1600) 53 The boy sayes, Mam, where is my Dad, when will he come home? 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 467 Since I first cal'd my brothers father Dad. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 95, I have not read so farre in heraldry, as to tell you who was his Dad, nor of what house his mother came. 1708S. Centlivre Busie Body i. i, An Uncle who..tho' he made me his Heir, left Dad my Guardian. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. Argt., Leaving his dad and mam in tears. 1886Besant Childr. of Gibeon ii. viii, Poor old dad!
fig.1608T. Morton Pream. Encounter 93 It is better to be a lad then (that I may so say) a dad in falshood. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin i. 222 For he was Dad of all the singing Tribe. 1828Craven Gloss., Dad is also used for one that excels in any thing, but chiefly in a bad sense. ‘He 'st dad of au for mischief’.
2. Used as a form of address to a person, not necessarily elderly, other than one's own father. colloq. (esp. in Jazz talk).
1959J. C. Holmes Horn 128 Here, dad, have a brew while I get these boys set up. 1960Time & Tide 24 Dec. 1599/1, I think 77 Sunset Strip is real zoolie, dad. 1966Melody Maker 30 July 8/3 Take that bit where everybody was called Dad... Altoist Bruce Turner..even called his wife ‘dad’.
▪ II. dad, n.2 Sc. and north. dial.
Also daud, dawd.
[f. dad v.]
1. A firm and shaking blow, a knock or thump (e.g. on the back of a man or beast, or on any body with dull resonance).
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk iii. xiii, He..Play'd dad, and dang the bark Aff's shins that day. 1789D. Davidson Seasons 15 (Jam.) Whoe'er did slight him gat a daud. 1827J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. (1855) I. 277 The snaw was..giein them sair flaffs and dads on their faces.
2. A large piece knocked off, a ‘thumping’ piece, a lump (of bread or other solid matter).
1785Burns Holy Fair xxiii, Cheese an' bread..dealt about in..dawds that day. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 89 Dauds o' counsel ye would gie. 1849in Robson Bards of Tyne 77 Lumps o' beef, an' dads o' duff. 1879Cumbrld. Gloss. Suppl., Daud, a flake of snow.
▪ III. dad, n.3
A deformation of God, in asseverations: now dial. or U.S. (Cf. adad, bedad; also dod.)
1678Otway Friendship in F. iii. i, But by Dad he's pure company. 1681N. N. Rome's Follies 30 Say'd thou so, Neighbour? dad, you have very much reviv'd my heart. 1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 216 I'll be dad shamed if it ain't all cowardice. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy iii, By dad! Andy, you've made a mistake this time that I'll forgive you. 1884‘C. E. Craddock’ Tenn. Mts. i. 45 Dad-burn that..idle poultry. Ibid. iii. 141 That dad-burned scoundrel. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxxiv. 354 It's de dad-blame' witches. 1890Dialect Notes (Boston U.S.), Kentucky Words ii. 64 Dad, dod, for God, in certain curses..‘Dad drat your hide’. 1901W. H. Harben Westerfelt xiv. 195 ‘Don't act so dadratted foolish,’ he said. Ibid. xxii. 300 Yes, dad burn it; you know she loves you. 1911R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter vi. 84 I'll be dadblamed if I know what's goin to come of it all some day! 1927Hollis St. Theatre Progr. (U.S.) 19 Sept., But who'd think where buildings are tall Business could be so dad-burned bum? 1944T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows 156 There was a sentiment that ‘a dad-blamed hog and a dad-gummed cow were the most aggravating things that ever made tracks on a piece of cotton land’. 1968Word Study Feb. 7/2 ‘Darn it’, ‘dad gum it’, ‘heck’.
▪ IV. dad, daud, v. Sc. and north. dial.|dæd, dad|
[Onomatopœic; expressing orally the action in question, and its abrupt and somewhat dulled sound. The occasional Sc. spelling daud does not imply a long vowel, but merely the low back wide (ɑ), often approaching |ɔ|.]
1. trans. To strike with a blow that shakes or sends a shock through; to knock, beat; to shake with knocking or beating.
a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 260 One took him [the ‘idole’] by the heillis, and dadding his head to the calsay, left Dagon without head or handis. 1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk ii. iii, Then took his bannet to the bent And daddit aff the glar. 1722― Three Bonnets iv, This said, he dadded to the yate. 1816J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 138 Twa stout young fellows daudin ane anither about..wi' their neives. 1833Moir Mansie Wauch xvii. (1849) 113 Dadding the end of his staff on the ground. 1849Carlyle Let. in Froude Life II. 11 Nervous system all ‘dadded about’ by coach travel.
2. intr.
1719Ramsay 2nd Answ. Hamilton iv, Dad down a grouf, and tak a drink. 1865Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 258 The shock it was to me to find..all those weak, wretched letters..‘dadding about’ [knocking about] in the dining-room. |