daddishness
English
Etymology
daddish + -ness
Noun
daddishness (uncountable)
- The quality of being daddish.
- 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 114:
- 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, Bernadette Strachan, The Reluctant Landlady:
- It 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.
- 2010, Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin, page 280:
- But I think that was the very reason he recoiled: your insistence, your crowding, your wanting, your cajoling, chummy Daddishness.