An informal North American term for fatherhood — specifically the state and experience of being a dad.
An informal North American term for fatherhood — specifically the state and experience of being a dad. It has a warmer, more personal quality than the formal 'fatherhood' and is commonly used in parenting media, personal essays, and casual conversation about the experience of raising children. 'Daddyhood' suggests the day-to-day emotional experience of being a father rather than the legal or biological fact.
He wrote a whole column about his stumbling first year of daddyhood and the things nobody warns you about.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(North America, informal) fatherhood.
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