Etymology

baby daddy

Today it means: The biological father of a child in common, particularly one who did not marry the mother and provides little or no support for the mother and child. Full definition →

Jamaican Creole baby-father
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  1. Jamaican Creole · derived frombaby-father
  2. English todaybaby daddy

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.

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