daddishness

noun

daddishness

noun

Etymology From daddish + -ness.

1

The quality of being daddish.

  • Tempted as I was to believe that interindividual and cultural differences in "caddishness" and "daddishness" simply reflect a genetic difference as straightforward as that seen in voles, the chapters on behavioral genetics disabused me of that notion2004 February, BM Cooke, “More Is Not Necessarily Better: Making Babies in the Modern World”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 41, number 1, page 114:
  • It was good to see his thick grey hair, his warm blue eyes (so like her own), his quietly amused expression and his general, all-round daddishness.2004, Bernadette Strachan, The Reluctant Landlady:
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  • But I think that was the very reason he recoiled: your insistence, your crowding, your wanting, your cajoling, chummy Daddishness.2010, Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin, page 280:

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