different between daddy vs chips

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ps/

Verb

chips

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chip

Noun

chips

1. plural of chip

   Wow, look at the chips on that motherboard!

   What kind of chips should we get: barbecue or sour cream and onion?

   The diner made its own chips from scratch.

Noun

chips (plural chips)

1. (slang) A carpenter.
   • 1929, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 144, page 462)

     I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'

Danish

Etymology

From English chips.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ib?s]

Noun

chips (plural definite chipsene)

1. potato chips, crisps

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English chips.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /??ps/, (rare, especially for the interjection) /t??ps/
• Hyphenation: chips
• Rhymes: -?ps

Noun

chips

1. potato chips, crisps

Interjection

chips

1. shoot, shit! (minced oath)

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /t??ps/
• Hyphenation: chips
• Rhymes: -?ps

Noun

chips

1. plural of chip

Finnish

Etymology

From English chips.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ips/, [??ips?]

Noun

chips

1. (anglicism, uncommon) potato chips

Declension

Synonyms

• perunalastut
• sipsit

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English chips.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ips/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /t?ip/

Noun

chips f or m or m pl (plural only)

1. (Anglicism) chips (American English), crisps (British English)

Usage notes

• Feminine in France, masculine in Belgium and masculine plural in some older dictionaries.

Further reading

• “chips” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Alternative forms

• czips

Etymology

From English chips.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ips/

Noun

chips m inan

1. chip (American English), crisp (British English)

Declension

Further reading

• chips in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• chips in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

chips m pl (plural only)

1. chips (thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags)
2. plural of chip

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ibs/, [?t??i??s]

Noun

chips m pl

1. plural of chip

Swedish

Etymology

From English chips.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ps/

Noun

chips n

1. chips (American English), crisps (British English)

Declension