baby daddy
baby daddy noun: the biological father of a child in common, particularly one who did not marry the mother and provides little or no support for the mother and child.
Noun
baby daddy (plural baby daddies)
- The biological father of a child in common, particularly one who did not marry the mother and provides little or no support for the mother and child.
- My baby’s daddy, [sic] Barack Obama.2004, Michelle Obama, Senate victory speech, November 2, 2004
- The baby daddy many of us at one point or another have or will be in a relationship with someone who has a child or children, and with that child or children comes another parent.2009, Stacye Branch M Msc, It's All in How You Look at It: Thoughts and Questions About Life, page 191
- Synonyms:
- babyfather
Examples of baby daddy in a sentence
- “I'm so glad I only have one baby daddy.” “F'really.” “I feel sorry for those girls with more than one.”2011, Michael Cornwall, Ticklenotes: More Voices from Cube Village, page 44:
- That man isn't my boyfriend; he's my baby daddy.2012, Aaron Peckham, Urban Dictionary: Freshest Street Slang Defined, page 16:
Synonyms of baby daddy
Forms of baby daddy
| plural | baby daddies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | baby-daddy |
| alternative form | babydaddy |
Origin of baby daddy
African-American Vernacular English (General American would be baby's daddy) 1990s, popularized in the 2000s; compare baby mama. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-father, alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.
Questions about baby daddy
- What does baby daddy mean?
- Baby daddy means the biological father of a child in common, particularly one who did not marry the mother and provides little or no support for the mother and child.
- How do you use baby daddy in a sentence?
- “I'm so glad I only have one baby daddy.” “F'really.” “I feel sorry for those girls with more than one.”
- What part of speech is baby daddy?
- Baby daddy is a noun.
- What is the plural of baby daddy?
- The plural of baby daddy is baby daddies.
Words near baby daddy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: baby daddy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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