dollar of the daddies
English
Alternative forms
- dollar of our daddies
Etymology
A parodic alteration of dollar of the fathers (referring to the Founding Fathers and/or one's ancestors).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɑlɚ ə(v) ðə ˌdædiz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒlə‿ɹə(v) ðə ˌdadiz/
Noun
dollar of the daddies (plural dollars of the daddies)
- (obsolete, colloquial) The pre-1873 American silver dollar.
- 1877, “Currency”, in American Journal of Numismatics, volume XIII, Boston Numismatic Society, page 108:
- And now irreverent jokers complain that the "Dollar of the Daddies" is below pa.
- 1896, “Appendix”, in Congressional Record: containing the procedures and debates of the Fifty-Fourth Congress, First Session, volume XXVIII, Government Printing Office, page 127:
- You say that you “want to restore silver"; now let us have the old conditions. “We want the 'dollar of the daddies',” is your cry.
- 1898 September 1, Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr., “Curiosities of American Coinage”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 53, D. Appleton & Company, page 601:
- Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.
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Usage notes
This term was used with invective by opponents of free silver.