sugar daddyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From sugar (“money”) +‎ daddy (“father”).

発音

名詞

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 baby, sugar mama, sugar mommy

   • 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.

使用する際の注意点

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

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• 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)

Further reading

• sugar daddy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia