baby daddy
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My baby’s daddy, [sic] Barack Obama."
- "The baby daddy many of us at one point or another have or will be in a relationship with someone who has a child or children, and with that child or children comes another parent."
- "“I'm so glad I only have one baby daddy.” “F'really.” “I feel sorry for those girls with more than one.”"
- "The father of your child, whom you did not marry, and with whom you are not currently involved. That man isn't my boyfriend; he's my baby daddy."
Etymology
African-American Vernacular English (General American would be baby's daddy) 1990s, popularized in the 2000s; compare baby mama. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-father, alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.
Word Breakdown
- Root: baby-father, -