sugar daddy

See also: sugardaddy

English

Etymology

Apparently from slang sugar (“money”) and colloquial daddy (“father”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

sugar daddy (plural sugar daddies)

1. (slang) A man who spends money for the benefit of a relationship with an often younger romantic or sexual partner.
   • 1961, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Black Man's Burden, Project Gutenberg EBook edition:

     "Huh, indeed!" Isobel answered him. "Proposing, or propositioning? If either of you two Romeos ever rattle the doorknob of my room at night again, you're apt to get a bullet through it." Jake winced. "Wasn't me. Look at my gray hair, Isobel. I'm old enough to be your daddy." "Sugar daddy, I suppose," she said mockingly.

   • 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:

     […] Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci [street]: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.

Usage notes

• This term typically implies that there is a romantic relationship between the two.

Synonyms

• aristo

Hypernyms

• Splenda daddy
• sugar parent

Coordinate terms

• sugar mama

Translations

slang: man who spends money for a relationship with a younger partner

• Afrikaans: vroetelpappie (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜心爹地 (tiánxīn diēdì), 甜爹 (tiándiē), 乾爹／干爹 (zh) (gāndiē)

• Finnish: namupappa
• Hebrew: שוגר דדי
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: gadun
• Jamaican Creole: boops, brinks
• Japanese: パパ活, パパカツ (papa katsu)
• Khmer: តាចិញ្ចឹម (taacəñcəm), តា (km) (taa)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sugardaddy m

• Polish: sponsor (pl) m
• Portuguese: coroa endinheirado m
• Russian: папик (ru) m (papik)
• Spanish: rabo verde m, lagartón (es) m, sugar (es) m
• Swahili: buzi
• Swedish: sugardaddy (sv) c, snaskefar c
• Thai: เสี่ย (th) (sìia), ป๋า (th) (bpǎa)