Dadliness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dadliness is a noun meaning (informal) The quality of being dadly.
Meaning
(informal) The quality of being dadly.
Example Sentences
Dadliness: Bill Cole meets Elise at the school bus with Brenna and Will (top), and later celebrates mom Marianne’s birthday.
What are dads for? This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly.
He returns, but not before a funny and often profound exploration of how parents and children behave, and of the essence of “dadliness.”
Gradually, through coping with Florida’s tantrums and his fellow fathers’ foibles, he acquires and understanding of what “dadliness” (as he calls it) is all about.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include daddishness, fatherliness, daughterliness, grandfatherliness, dadness, momliness.
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