different between daddy vs shakedown

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

Alternative forms

• shake-down

Etymology

From the verb phrase shake down. An improvised bed would originally have been made by shaking down straw.

Pronunciation

Noun

shakedown (plural shakedowns)

1. (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail

   What is this, a shakedown?

2. (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
3. A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft
4. An improvised bed.
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage":

     "There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown?" -- "No, sir."

   • 1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics 2018, p. 107:

     ‘You two,’ he says, ‘you're not going back tonight. […] I can make you shake-downs on the veranda and we'll have a bite to eat.’

Translations

Adjective

shakedown

1. that tests the performance of a ship or aircraft

Translations

Anagrams

• hawknosed