Reverse Dictionary: FATHER

ADJECTIVES
► AGNATICAL related on the father’s side → 1660 obs.
► FATHER-BETTER surpassing one’s father in any respect → 1645 Sc.
► FATHER WAR ► FATHER-WAUR worse than one’s father, degenerate → 1535 Sc. obs.
► GUBERNATORIAL relating to a person’s father → 1825 obs.

NOUNS
► DADDY TRACK an arrangement of work, working hours, etc., made by men who wish to spend more than the ordinary time with their children → 1990s Amer. sl.
► FATHER-AGE the time of life when one is a father; hence, a mature age; adulthood of man → 1596 obs.
► FATHERHOOD authority of or as of a father; paternal authority, headship → c1460 obs.
► PAPASHIP the position of being a ‘papa’; fatherhood → 1816
► PATRIARCHY a society organized to give supremacy to the father or the oldest male in governing a family, tribe, or clan → 1991 (Bk.)
► SIRESHIP the state of being a sire; fatherhood; paternity; also, authorship → 1837

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABBA one’s father; a father; often used as a form of address → 1955 Anglo-Indian
► ABSENT PARENTS fathers who do not live with their infant children → 1994 euphemism
► ABUJI father → 1972 Amer. dial. (Hawaii)
► ACCIDENTAL DADDY a man who fathers a child by accident, usually after a casual sexual encounter → 1985 sl.
► A.D. a man who fathers a child by accident, usually after a casual sexual encounter; an accidental daddy → 1985 sl.
► ADMIRAL one’s father → c1800 Eton usage
► BAB dad or papa → 1598 nursery usage obs.
► BABA father; also used as a respectful form of address for an older man → 1771 orig. & chiefly South Asian
► BABY-DADDY the father of a woman’s child, who is not her husband or (in most cases) her current or exclusive partner → 1987 colloq.
► BABY-FATHER the father of a woman’s child, who is not her husband or (in most cases) her current or exclusive partner → 1932 orig. Caribbean
► BABY-MAKER a  person who bears or begets a child; a parent → 1968 colloq.
► BABY-POPPA the father of a woman’s child, who is not her husband or (in most cases) her current or exclusive partner → 2000 US sl.
► BANKER a father → Bk1891 Eng. sl.
► BAP a father; in Caribbean use, any older man, esp. one of South Asian descent → 1842 South Asian & Caribbean
► BAPU one’s father; a father → 1930 Anglo-Indian
► BEGETTER one who begets; the father → c1440
► DA a child’s name for father, dada → 1824
► DA, THE a respectful or affectionate form for father, used by both adults and children → 1960s Irish sl.
► DAD ► DADD ► DADDE a childish or familiar word for father; orig. ranking with ‘mam’ for mother → c1500
► DADA ► DADDA a child’s word for father → 1688
► DADDIE a father; the term most commonly used by the children of the peasantry → a1500
► DADDIO a person’s father → 1962 US jazz usage
► DADDO ► DADO a term of address for father → 1933 Irish usage
► DADDRIL a comic name for a father → Bk1900 Eng. dial. 
► DADDY a diminutive and endearing form of dad; father → a1500 
► DADDY-O ► DADIO a person’s father → 1962 US jazz usage
► DADE father → Bk1860 gypsy usage
► DADI a father → Bk1860 gypsy usage
► DADS one’s father, or in general address, a man → 1984 UK sl. 
► DADY daddy, father → a1529 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DEADBEAT DAD ► DEADBEAT DADDY a man who is delinquent in paying child support awards → 1990s Amer. sl.
► DILF a sexually attractive father (Dad I’d Like to Fuck) → 2003 US sl.
► DOSSER, THE the father of a family; he who provides the ‘doss’ (lodging, a bed) → L19 sl.
► FA father → 1941 upper class usage
► FAADER father → Bk1901 Eng. dial.
► FACE-MAKER a father of an illegitimate child → E19 sl.
► FADDER father → Bk1828 Eng. dial.
► FADDY one’s father → 1905 Amer. dial.
► FADDYWADDY one’s father → 1843 Amer. dial.
► FAFA one’s father → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FATHERLING a father → 1624 contemptuous usage
► FATHERLING a little father; used as an affectionate mode of address → 1625
► GAFFER one’s father → 1782 sl.
► GENERATOR one who generates or begets; spec. a male parent, a father → 1637
► GENITOR 1. a male parent, a father → 1447
2. a biological father as opposed to a man who assumes legal and social responsibility for a child not his own → 1930
► GOVERNOR ► GOV’NOR ► GUVNER ► GUV’NOR one’s father → 1827
► GUV one’s father → M19
► HAVANA CIGAR pa, father  → Bk1985 rhyming sl. 
► HEAD-STALL the head of a house, a father, a husband, etc. → Bk1902 Sc.
► HOUSE-FATHER the father of a family or household → 1552
► JACKET a man who accepts the role of father to a child he knows is not his → 20C W. Indies sl.
► MOSES 1. a man who stands as father to an illegitimate child (knowingly or unknowingly) → 1859 sl. obs.
2. a man who sires a child for the financial reward → Bk1992 criminals’ sl.  obs.
► MY OLD GUVNOR one’s father → M19
► OLD BOY a father → 1892 UK
► OLD CHAP one’s father → 1839
► OLD FELLOW one’s father → 1912 sl.
► OLD GENT one’s father → 1908 US sl,
► OLD GENTLEMAN one’s father → 1911 US sl.
► OLD LAD a father → 1979 sl.
► OLD MAN a father, regardless of age → 1811 US sl.
► OLD ONE, THE ► OLD ‘UN, THE a father → 1891 Aust. sl.
► OLD POT ► OLD POT, THE an old man, esp. one’s father → 1893 sl., orig. Aust.
► OLD POT AND PAN ‘old man’; husband, father → M19 rhyming sl.
► OLD SQUARETOES one’s father → c1770 sl.
► OLD STRIKE-A-LIGHT one’s father → 1890 sl.
► OLD TOP a father → 1986 S. Afr. sl.
► PA father, daddy; chiefly as a form of address; also used as a form of address for a middle-aged or elderly man other than one’s father; Mr. → 1773 colloq.
► PAP a father → 1844 Amer. dial.
► PAPA a father → 1681
► PA-PAW a grandfather; rarely, a father or stepfather → 1942 Amer. dial.
► PAPPY father → 1763  sl.
► PAPS a father → 1970s UK Black sl.
► PATER ► PATER, THE one’s father → E18 school sl.
► PAW father → 1873 Amer. dial.
► PAW-PA  ► PAW-PAW a grandfather; rarely, a father or stepfather → 1956 Amer. dial.
► PEEPAW a grandfather; rarely, a father or stepfather → 1965 Amer. dial.
► POBIE a father or foster-father → 1822 Sc.
► POP father → 1838 sl.
► PO-PO a grandfather; rarely, a father or stepfather → 1965 Amer. dial.
► POPPA father → 1897 sl., orig. US
► POPPAW a grandfather; rarely, a father or stepfather → 1962 Amer. dial.
► POPPER a father → L19, orig. US
► POPPIE ► POPPY a father → 1893 Amer. dial.
► POPS father → 1928 sl.
► POT AND PAN a father → 1900 rhyming sl. for ‘old man’ 
► RELIEVING-OFFICER a father → 1883 sl.
► SIRE a father, a male parent; also, a forefather → c1250 now chiefly poetic
► SOAP AND LATHER a father → L19 rhyming sl.
► TAE a child’s term for father; also, a paternal or maternal grandfather → 1972 Sc.
► TAT a child’s word for father → Bk1855 Eng. dial.
► TATA father, an affectionate and respectful title for an old man → 1793 W. Indies
► TATHIE a child’s name for father, daddy → 1930 Sc.
► TATSY a child’s word for father → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► TATTA a child’s word for father → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► TATUH father, dad, papa → Bk1982 Jewish
► VADER father → Bk1888 obs.
► VATHER a father → Bk1888 Eng. dial.
► VEDER father → c825 obs.
► ZOO DADDY a divorced or separated father who sees his children rarely → 1970 sl.

NOUNS – PERSON – OTHER
► FADDER a child having features resembling those of its father → 1878 Eng. dial.
► FATHER-QUELLER a parricide; one who kills a father → c1440 obs.

VERBS
► DADDY 1. to father a child, often out of wedlock → 1916 Amer. dial.
2. to acknowledge or identify the paternity of a child → 1930 Amer. dial.
3. to raise or act as parent to a child → 1957 Amer. dial.
► DADDY ONESELF to resemble one’s father (so as to leave no doubt of his paternity) → 1916 Amer. dial.
► GET ONE’S BAIT BACK to succeed in fathering a son → 1927 US sl.
► MAKE FACES to father children → L18 sl.
► PAPPIE to father a child → 1940 Amer. dial.
► PAPPY 1. to father a child → 1940 Amer. dial.
2. to transmit the father’s likeness to offspring → 1953 Amer. dial.
► PATRIZATE to take after, imitate, or follow the example of one’s father or ancestors → 1623 obs.
► WEAR A JACKET FOR of a husband: to accept a child, that is not his, as his own → 20C W. Indies sl.