different between mister vs daddy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s?-t?r, IPA^(key): /?m?st??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [?m?st?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): [?m?st?]
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)
• Homophones: Mr., Mister
• Hyphenation: mis?ter

Etymology 1

Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child.

   You may sit here, mister.

   • 1855, George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition, J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:

     Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.

   • 1908, Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story, The McClure Company, page 90:

     There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.

   • 1996, Spice Girls (band), Wannabe (song)

     God help the mister who comes between me and my sisters.

   • 2013, Asterix and the Picts, page 37

     Asterix: What? And only now you tell us?

     Obelix: I was talking to the future queen, mister Asterix!

     Asterix: And I advise you to change your tone, mister Obelix!

     Obelix: The future queen and I don't need your advice, mister Asterix! Mister Asterix gives too much advice anyway!

Usage notes

Use of the term, enunciated with extra emphasis, may express scorn.

Coordinate terms

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor), Madam (madam, ma'am) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

Derived terms

• sister from another mister

Descendants

• ? Italian: mister
• ? Polish: mister
• ? Portuguese: míster
• ? Spanish: míster

Translations

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (transitive) To address by the title of "mister". [from 18th c.]

Etymology 2

From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”).

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
2. (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast,
     To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd […].

3. (obsolete) Need (of something).
4. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     As for my name, it mistreth not to tell;
     Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

Etymology 3

mist +? -er.

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. A device that makes or sprays mist.

   Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.

Derived terms

• demister

References

Anagrams

• ermits, merits, miters, mitres, remits, smiter, timers, tremis

Danish

Verb

mister

1. present of miste

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mister.

Noun

mister m (invariable)

1. mister (appellation)
2. (soccer) coach (trainer)

Anagrams

• stremi

Latvian

Noun

mister m

1. vocative singular of misters

Middle English

Alternative forms

• myster, mester, mystere, meoster, mistere, mystir, mestier

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mester, from Medieval Latin misterium, a variant of ministerium influenced by mysterium. Doublet of mysterie (“duty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis?t??r/, /?mist?r/

Noun

mister (plural mysteres)

1. A station, position, or rank in a hierarchy or structure:
   1. One's job or line of work; a profession.
   2. One's objective, aim, goal or duty; especially the inherent use of something.
2. A requirement; something that one must have:
   1. An issue or challenge; something that must be overcome.
   2. A situation where people face want or hardship; penury.
3. An organisation dedicated to promoting a possession.
4. A custom, habit or behaviour; a deed.
5. An ability; the knowledge of how to perform a job.

Derived terms

• mysteren
• myster man

Descendants

• English: mister (obsolete)
• Scots: mister

References

• “mister, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mister

1. present tense of miste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mister

1. present of mista

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i.st?r/

Noun

mister m pers

1. winner of a male beauty pageant

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mester, *m?ester, from Latin ministerium (“employment”). Doublet of ministério.

Alternative forms

• mester

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mis?t??/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /mis?t??/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /mis?t??/

Adjective

mister (plural mister, comparable)

1. (law) of the utmost importance
2. necessary

Noun

mister m (plural misteres)

1. office, work, employment, occupation, profession

   Synonyms: ofício, profissão, serviço, trabalho

2. position in a profession

   Synonyms: cargo, posição

3. need; necessity

   Synonym: necessidade

Etymology 2

Noun

mister m (plural misters)

1. Alternative form of míster

Romanian

Alternative forms

• misteriu

Etymology

Borrowed from French mystère.

Noun

mister n (plural mistere)

1. mystery

Declension

Swedish

Verb

mister

1. present tense of mista.

Anagrams

• smiter

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