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Dad   /dæd/   Listen
Dad

noun
1.
An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk.  Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop.



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"Dad" Quotes from Famous Books



... needn't have minded," said Waller to himself. "It's my jacket that I lent him; and I feel so comfortable and easy now that dad knows all. There, I believe I can sleep better to-night than I ...
— The New Forest Spy • George Manville Fenn

... Paula had been fairly palpable. Her reply, "All right, dad, till to-night, then. Au 'voir" had been, she knew, as brittle and sharp-edged as a bit of broken glass. It had cut ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... "Oh, come, dad!" protested one of the girls, laughing, "you know it isn't so bad as that! There's plenty of life—not just at this hour of the morning, perhaps,"—with a fleeting glance at the empty landscape,—"but ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson

... Her father was one of the opposing party, and that gave her perfect audacity. "Look out you don't hit me, dad," she cried to him. "I'm goin' to get my nearseal cape. Don't you hit your daughter, Tom Peel!" She raced on with a sort of hoppity-skip. She caught a young man near her by the arm and forced him ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... like the Apostle Jonah. While he was aboard ship there wasn't any sort of luck, and at last the crew took and hove him overboard, and served him right. There's a mighty lot of wisdom in the Scriptures if you only take hold of 'em in the right way. My dad was a preacher, and I ...
— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various


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