sugar daddy

• sugardaddy

Apparently from slang sugar (“money”) and colloquial daddy (“father”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. What is "apparently" supposed to mean here.

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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 mama, sugar mommy; sugar baby

   • 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.

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

• 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)

Unadapted borrowing from English sugar daddy.

• Hyphenation: su‧gar dad‧dy

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

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