| 单词 | big daddy |
| 释义 | big daddynoun (often initial capital letters)Informal.a man regarded as the paternalistic head of a family. the founder or a leading member of a company, organization, movement, etc.: the big daddy of soil conservation. the federal government: to thank big daddy for the tax cut. Chiefly Southern U.S. grandfather. Origin of big daddyFirst recorded in 1950–55 Words nearby big daddybig cheese, big Chief, big-cone pine, big crunch, Big D, big daddy, big data, big deal, Big Dipper, bigeminal, bigeminal pulse Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with big daddybig daddy An influential man, a big shot (see under big cheese), as in You'll have to get permission from big daddy. [Slang; mid-1900s] A male sweetheart or friend, often a man considerably older than his female companion; a sugar daddy. [Slang; mid-1900s] Grandfather. This usage originated in the South among African-Americans. The largest or most important person or thing of its kind. For example, The United States has long been the big daddy of the Western Hemisphere, or The blue whale was the big daddy of the ocean. [Slang; 1960s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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