Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being daddish.
But I think that was the very reason he recoiled: your insistence, your crowding, your wanting, your cajoling, chummy Daddishness.
2010, Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin, page 2802 more examples
Tempted as I was to believe that interindividual and cultural differences in "caddishness" and "daddishness" simply reflect a genetic difference as straightforward as that seen in voles, the chapters on behavioral genetics disabused me of that notion
2004 February, BM Cooke, “More Is Not Necessarily Better: Making Babies in the Modern World”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 41, number 1, page 114It was good to see his thick grey hair, his warm blue eyes (so like her own), his quietly amused expression and his general, all-round daddishness.
2004, Bernadette Strachan, The Reluctant Landlady
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