sugar daddy

See also: sugardaddy and Sugardaddy

English

Alternative forms

• sugardaddy

Etymology

From sugar (“money”) +‎ daddy (“father”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Australian):

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Noun

sugar daddy (plural sugar daddies)

1. (slang) A man who spends money on an often younger partner in order to maintain the relationship.

   Near-synonym: aristo

   Hypernym: sugar parent

   Hyponyms: salt daddy, Splenda daddy

   Coordinate terms: sugar baby, sugar mama, sugar mommy

   • 1961, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Black Man's Burden, Project Gutenberg EBook edition:

     "Huh, indeed!" Isobel answered him. "Proposing, or propositioning? If either of you two Romeos ever rattle the doorknob of my room at night again, you're apt to get a bullet through it." Jake winced. "Wasn't me. Look at my gray hair, Isobel. I'm old enough to be your daddy." "Sugar daddy, I suppose," she said mockingly.

   • 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:

     […] Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci [street]: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.

Usage notes

• The term typically implies that there is a romantic, sexual, or otherwise intimate relationship between the two.

Derived terms

• Uncle Sugar

Related terms

• sugar dating
• sugaring

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • → Mandarin: 甜心爹地 (tiánxīn diēdì), 甜爹 (tiándiē) (calque)
• → German: Sugardaddy
• → Portuguese: sugar daddy
• → Spanish: sugar daddy, ⇒ sugar
• → Swedish: sugardaddy
• → Russian: шу́га дэ́дди (šúga dɛ́ddi)
• → Vietnamese: bố đường, ba đường (calque)

Translations

slang: older man who spends money for a relationship with a younger partner

• Afrikaans: vroetelpappie (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜心爹地 (tiánxīn diēdì), 甜爹 (tiándiē), 乾爹 / 干爹 (zh) (gāndiē)

• Finnish: namupappa
• German: Sugardaddy (de) m
• Hebrew: שוגר דדי
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: gadun
• Jamaican Creole: boops, brinks
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} パパ活 (ja) (パパかつ, papa katsu), ^{(please verify)} パパカツ (papa katsu)
• Khmer: តាចិញ្ចឹម (taacəñcəm), តា (km) (taa)
• Korean: 슈가대디 (syugadaedi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sugardaddy m

• Polish: sponsor (pl) m
• Portuguese: sugar daddy (pt) m, coroa endinheirado m
• Russian: па́почка (ru) m (pápočka), (derogatory) па́пик (ru) m (pápik), ^{(please verify)} шу́га дэ́дди m (šúga dɛ́ddi), (slang) дэ́дди m (dɛ́ddi), спо́нсор (ru) m (spónsor, literally “sponsor”) (euphemistic), са́харный па́почка m (sáxarnyj pápočka) (neologism, literal from English), бога́тый покрови́тель m (bogátyj pokrovítelʹ, literally “rich patron”)
• Spanish: rabo verde m, lagartón (es) m, sugar daddy (es) m, sugar (es) m
• Swahili: buzi
• Swedish: sugardaddy (sv) c, snaskefar c
• Telugu: షుగర్ డాడీ (ṣugar ḍāḍī), సుగర్ డాడీ (sugar ḍāḍī)
• Thai: เสี่ย (th) (sìia), ป๋า (th) (bpǎa)
• Vietnamese: sugar daddy, bố đường, ba đường

Further reading

• sugar daddy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sugar daddy.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ɡɐʁ ˈdɛ.ɾi/ [ˈʃu.ɡɐh ˈdɛ.ɾi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ɡɐʁ ˈdɛ.ɾi/ [ˈʃu.ɡɐh ˈdɛ.ɾi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ɡaɾ ˈdɛ.ɾi/, /ˈʃu.ɡaɾ ˈdɛ.di/, /ˈʃu.ɡaɾ ˈdɛ.d͡ʒi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ɡɐʁ ˈdɛ.ɾi/ [ˈʃu.ɡɐχ ˈdɛ.ɾi]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ɡɐɻ ˈdɛ.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: su‧gar dad‧dy

Noun

sugar daddy m (plural sugar daddies or sugar daddys)

1. (slang) sugar daddy (older man who spends money for a relationship with a younger partner)

   Coordinate terms: sugar mommy; sugar baby

Related terms

• sugar

Further reading

• “sugar daddy”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026