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dadliness

dadliness noun: the quality of being dadly.

Noun

dadliness (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The quality of being dadly.
    • Dadliness: Bill Cole meets Elise at the school bus with Brenna and Will (top), and later celebrates mom Marianne’s birthday.1998 June 21, Peter Jensen, “Sometimes, mom is a dad”, in The Sun, Baltimore, Md., page 7m
    • >>her dad for some weird reason has / >>decided she shouldn't dye her hair anymore / > / >Prolly because it makes him think he's raising chrysanthemums, not / >daughters. / Well, her hair is normally a dark brown color so what the red dye does is just add auburn highlights to it...it's not a really...2000 August 31, Spuddie, “cool web experiment 5756”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet)

Examples of dadliness in a sentence

  • He's just exercising his omnipotent Dadliness I guess. *shrug*2000 August 31, Spuddie, “cool web experiment 5756”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet):
  • This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly.2008 July 12, “Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce, read by Daniel Ryan; Macmillan, 6hrs, £16.99”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,621, page...
  • Gradually, through coping with Florida’s tantrums and his fellow fathers’ foibles, he acquires and understanding of what “dadliness” (as he calls it) is all about.2009 June 6, “Flight of fantasy ode to oldies”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,902, page W13:
  • He returns, but not before a funny and often profound exploration of how parents and children behave, and of the essence of “dadliness.”2010 February 14, Mary Harris Russell, “Visionary teen tries to escape prison world”, in Orlando Sentinel Sunday, page F8:

Origin of dadliness

From dadly + -ness.

Questions about dadliness

What does dadliness mean?
Dadliness means the quality of being dadly.
How do you use dadliness in a sentence?
He's just exercising his omnipotent Dadliness I guess. *shrug*
What part of speech is dadliness?
Dadliness is a noun.

Words near dadliness in the dictionary

  1. dadihu
  2. Dadio
  3. Dadios
  4. dadless
  5. dadlike
  6. dadliness
  7. Dadlington
  8. Dadlington and Sutton Cheney
  9. dadly
  10. dadness
  11. dadney

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