dadlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Informal

"He put his hand around the back of my neck in a friendly, dadlike way."
"He still has that dadlike tone that means I must obey him, so I sit."
"For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior."

Etymology tree English dad Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English dadlike From dad + -like.

more dadlike (comparative) most dadlike (superlative)

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What does dadlike mean?

Befitting a dad; fatherly.

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