Daddy Warbucks
English
Etymology
After Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, a fictional character from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, who first appeared in the Daily News in 1924.
Noun
Daddy Warbucks
- A powerful protector.
- 2011, Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out:
- So, yes, grief was a regular bedside companion the many nights I cried myself to sleep thinking one day, all this will be just a dream, that I too, would have a Daddy Warbucks somewhere out there.
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