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boo-daddy

boo-daddy is the alternative form of boo daddy.

Meaning of boo daddy

Noun

boo daddy (plural boo daddies)

  1. (Gullah folklore) A malevolent supernatural being; a bogeyman.
    • Dat swamp des’ splodin’ full o’ ghos’ an’ spook, boo-daddy an’ debblement!1906, John Bennett, The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard, →ISBN, page 287

Forms of boo-daddy

pluralboo-daddies

Questions about boo-daddy

What is boo-daddy the alternative form of?
Boo-daddy is the alternative form of boo daddy.

Words near boo-daddy in the dictionary

  1. boo-boo bus
  2. boo-booed
  3. boo-booing
  4. boo-boos
  5. boo-daddies
  6. boo-daddy
  7. boo-hag
  8. boo-hags
  9. boo-hoo
  10. boo-hooed
  11. boo-hooing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boo-daddy (page history and authors); boo 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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