daddie

plural daddies

1. ScotlandalternativeAlternative spelling of daddy.

   Come to your ould daddie, you lil sandpiper.

   1894 January–July, Hall Caine, chapter VIII, in The Manxman, London: William Heinemann, published 3 August 1894 (1 September 1894 printing), →OCLC, part IV (Man and Wife), page 227

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

   1802, “The Young Tamlane”, in Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: […], volume II, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] James Ballantyne, for T[homas] Cadell Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […]; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A[rchibald] Constable, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Romantic Ballads), page 232

   "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."

   1908, Ethel Turner, In the Mist of the Mountains