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daddying

daddying is the present participle and gerund of daddy.

Meaning of daddy

Verb

daddy (third-person singular simple present daddies, present participle daddying, simple past and past participle daddied)

  1. (Appalachia, informal, transitive) To father (a child); to beget, to sire.
    • "Just supposin' Mister [a dog] has daddied a pup here and there," said old man Rivers. "What's wrong with that? Ain't your foxhounds han'some and hard-runnin'?"1964 October, Havilah Babcock, “Something of a Ladies’ Man”, in Jaybirds Go to Hell on Friday and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →OCLC, page 85

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Questions about daddying

What is daddying the present participle and gerund of?
Daddying is the present participle and gerund of daddy.

Words near daddying in the dictionary

  1. daddy-o
  2. daddy-oh
  3. daddy-ohs
  4. daddy-os
  5. daddyhood
  6. daddying
  7. daddyish
  8. daddykins
  9. daddyless
  10. Dade
  11. Dade City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daddying (page history and authors); 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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