sugar daddy
nounEtymology From sugar (“money”) + daddy (“father”).
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Slang A man who spends money on an often younger partner in order to maintain the relationship.
- Near-synonym: aristo
- "Huh, indeed!" Isobel answered him. "Proposing, or propositioning? If either of you two Romeos ever rattle the doorknob of my room at night again, you're apt to get a bullet through it." Jake winced. "Wasn't me. Look at my gray hair, Isobel. I'm old enough to be your daddy." "Sugar daddy, I suppose," she said mockingly.1961, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Black Man's Burden, Project Gutenberg EBook edition:
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- […] Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci [street]: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:
- Derived terms
- Uncle Sugar
- Related terms
- sugar dating, sugaring