different between daddy vs policeman

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

police +? -man

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??li?sm?n/
• Hyphenation: po?lice?man

Noun

policeman (plural policemen)

1. A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
2. (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
3. (entomology) Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
4. (ice hockey) Synonym of enforcer
   • 2002, P. J. Harari, Dave Ominsky, Ice Hockey Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide (page 26)

     A team may have a policeman or enforcer.

Synonyms

• (member of a police force): See Thesaurus:police officer
• (glass rod with rubber cap): rubber policeman

Hyponyms

• (member of a police force) policewoman

Synonyms

• (member of a police force) police officer

Derived terms

• sleeping policeman
• policemanship

Translations

Descendants

• ? French: policeman
• ? Welsh: plismon

See also

• constable

Anagrams

• melanopic

French

Noun

policeman m (plural policemans)

1. policeman (in Anglophone countries)
   • 1968, Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie And Clyde

     Chaque fois qu'un policeman se fait buter […]