sky daddy

See also: skydaddy

English

Alternative forms

• skydaddy, Sky Daddy, Skydaddy

Etymology

From sky +‎ daddy, originally in reference to the Christian conception of God the Father resident in Heaven.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sky daddy (plural sky daddies)

1. (slang) A god, especially (derogatory, offensive) God the Father.

   Synonyms: sky fairy; see also Thesaurus:god

   • 2010, Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files), New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PR6119.T79 F85 2010, page 81:

     For starters, having an ideology that explicitly denies the existence of an invisible sky daddy is a bit of a handicap when it comes to assimilating the idea of nightmarish immortal aliens from elsewhere in the multiverse, given that the NIAs in question have historically been identified as gods (subtype: elder).

   • 2010 October 14, “Well Said”, in The Good Atheist‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 September 2011:

     An invisible sky daddy didn’t save all those Chilean miners; real people with science and technology got it done!

   • 2011 November 9, Matt Bush, “Nature doesn’t care about us”, in In which I wax acerbic‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 November 2011:

     Nature isn’t some sky daddy, it’s what makes up reality by definition.

   • 2011, E. A. St. Amant, The New Ancien Régime, →ISBN, page 79:

     In the book of fairy tales and myths, a big magical sky daddy delivers the populace his own flesh and blood to get horribly slain so that his resurrected son can become your imaginary bearded hippie-friend.

   • 2011, John Leonard Köehler, Billy Blue Sky‎^[3]:

     “Magic!” said Billy, clapping his hands with delight. “I talked to my sky daddy. He made a magic dream in your heart.”