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daddishness

daddishness noun: the quality of being daddish.

Noun

daddishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being daddish.
    • Tempted as I was to believe that interindividual and cultural differences in "caddishness" and "daddishness" simply reflect a genetic difference as straightforward as that seen in voles, the chapters on behavioral genetics disabused me of that notion2004 February, BM Cooke, “More Is Not Necessarily Better: Making Babies in the Modern World”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 41, number 1, page 114
    • It was good to see his thick grey hair, his warm blue eyes (so like her own), his quietly amused expression and his general, all-round daddishness.2004, Bernadette Strachan, The Reluctant Landlady

Origin of daddishness

From daddish + -ness.

Questions about daddishness

What does daddishness mean?
Daddishness means the quality of being daddish.
What part of speech is daddishness?
Daddishness is a noun.

Words near daddishness in the dictionary

  1. dadding
  2. daddio
  3. daddios
  4. daddish
  5. daddishly
  6. daddishness
  7. daddle
  8. daddled
  9. daddles
  10. daddling
  11. daddock

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