Meanings

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    noun

    father (dialectal or informal)

    My da taught me how to mend a fence.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · father (dialectal or informal) daddaddypapapopfather
Opposites
Word family
Related forms dadadaddy

Etymology

A dialectal and nursery contraction of 'dad', itself a child's reduplicative word for father, of imitative origin found across many languages.

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