different between daddy vs chill

English

Etymology

From dad +? -y.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?d'i, IPA^(key): /?dædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi

Noun

daddy (plural daddies)

1. (usually childish) Father.
2. (informal) A male lover.
   • 1955, Ray Charles, Greenbacks

     She looked at me with that familiar desire

     Her eyes lit up like they were on fire

     She said, "My name's Flo, and you're on the right track,

     But look here, daddy, I wear furs on my back,

     So if you want to have fun in this man's land,

     Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands."

3. (dated slang) An informal term of address for a man.

   Rock 'n' roll is cool, daddy, and you know it!

4. (slang) A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
   • 2004, David Wilson, Sean O'Sullivan, Images of Incarceration (page 162)

     However, what is of interest is that it is clear that the staff have to use the prisoners to run the borstal and thus do not object to, or try to control the inmate subculture that produces 'daddies', violence, sexual assault and racism, […]

   • 2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang

     The daddies were the chaps of the old borstal system, leaders who had clawed their way to the top of the borstal food chain by showing gameness and the ability and willingness to inflict serious violence on their fellow detainees.

Synonyms

• da (Irish)
• dad
• dadda
• daddio
• pa
• papa
• paw
• pop
• poppa
• See also Thesaurus:father

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive, chiefly Appalachia) To father; to sire.
   • 1997, Larry L. King, True Facts, Tall Tales, and Pure Fiction (?ISBN):

     Grieving apparently wasn't a full-time job, however, since Hank up and married a gal named Billie Jean and daddied a daughter by yet another consoler.

See also

• mom (US and Canada)
• mommy (US and Canada)
• mum
• mummy

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English chil, chile, from Old English ?iele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *kaliz. Merged with Middle English chele, from Old English c?le (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *k?liz, *k?l?? (“coolness; coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Related to German Low German Köle, German Kühle, Danish køle, Swedish kyla, Icelandic kylur. Compare also Dutch kil (“chilly; frosty; frigid”). See also cool, cold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

chill (countable and uncountable, plural chills)

1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

2. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

3. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

4. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
5. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

6. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
7. Calmness; equanimity.
8. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

Translations

Adjective

chill (comparative more chill, superlative most chill)

1. Moderately cold or chilly.
2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.

3. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.

4. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

   Synonym: cool

5. (slang) Okay, not a problem.

Translations

Verb

chill (third-person singular simple present chills, present participle chilling, simple past and past participle chilled)

1. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

2. (intransitive) To become cold.

3. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
4. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
5. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.

6. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.

   Synonym: chill out

7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.

8. (transitive, figuratively) To discourage, depress.

Translations

Derived terms

References

• chill in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

From ch- +? will, from ich + will.

Alternative forms

• ch'ill, 'chill

Contraction

chill

1. (West Country, obsolete) I will
   • 1588, anon. or William Byrd, "Though Amaryllis Daunce in Greene"

     Yet since their eyes make hart so sore, hey ho, chill love no more.

   Synonym: I'll

Irish

Noun

chill

1. Lenited form of cill.

Middle English

Etymology

See ch-.

Verb

chill

1. I will

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English chill.

Adjective

chill

1. (slang) cool

Verb

chill

1. imperative of chille

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

chill

1. Lenited form of cill.

Mutation