daddie

English

Noun

daddie (plural daddies)

1. (often Scotland) Alternative form of daddy
   • 1908, Ethel Turner, In the Mist of the Mountains‎^[1]:

     "No," said Pauline sadly, "they've gone to New Zealand,--mamma got quite ill with nursing us, and daddie got it too, and he wouldn't come up here."

   • 1894, Hall Caine, The Manxman‎^[2]:

     "Come to your ould daddie, you lil sandpiper.

   • 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3)‎^[3]:

     Says--"Carterhaugh it is mine ain; "My daddie gave it me; "I'll come and gang to Carterhaugh, "And ask nae leave o' thee."