单词 | big daddy |
释义 | Big Daddy in American English Informal someone or something dominantly important, powerful, wealthy, or, often, paternalistic big daddy in American Englishnoun (often caps) informal 1. a man regarded as the paternalistic head of a family 2. the founder or a leading member of a company, organization, movement, etc. the big daddy of soil conservation 3. the federal government to thank big daddy for the tax cut 4. chiefly Southern U.S. grandfather Word origin [1950–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, allograph, bleep, point-of-sale, wiretapSeebig Chief |
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