sugar daddy n.
1. (orig. US) an older man who is willing to provide the various material wants of a younger mistress or, if gay, a younger male lover; thus punning saccharine daddy, an older male ‘friend’ with no sex involved.
 | Language Series I 30: You’re plainly a fool to think that man will be your lover and sugar daddy forever. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 27 Mar. 8: Anna Pinkweed, tiring of her home town, Bogash, O., goes to New York to really live [...] Thus Anna was left with the bewhiskered Sugar Daddy who wanted the knife. | |
| in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 80: My guess is this. The first is either the owner of a blind pig or a sugar papa. The second runs a movie school. | |
| (con. 1920s) Big Money in USA (1966) 989: And me thinkin’ you was an elderly sugardaddy. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Young Men in Spats 14: [A]ll that stuff about Sugar-Daddies being Discovered In Love Nest As Blizzard Grips City. | |
| Serenade (1985) 20: No use having her think she’d hooked a nice American sugar papa. | |
| Really the Blues 84: Sugar daddies with their sable-sporting chicken dinners. | |
| Small Time Crooks 13: Plenty of the dames had nothing to show but themselves and no audience bigger than a two hundred pound sugar-daddy. | |
| Homosexual Society 45: [I was] the official ‘nephew’. I got into trouble when I was over twenty and my sugar daddy picked himself up a fourteen-year-old boy. | |
| (con. 1949) True Confessions (1979) 306: Someone had to give her the tip, right? [...] A sugar-daddy type, maybe . . | |
| Faggots 111: [in a homosexual context] There might be the odd old sugar daddy who arrived at midnight. | |
| After Hours 38: Where am I goin’ with their sugar-pops? | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 147: Like to catch one o’ dem sugars for myself! | |
| Eng. Madam 72: My sugar daddy pampered me, he really did. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 210: Access to quote classy call girls unquote who might pose for a lark if their quote crazy sugar daddyo unquote agreed. | |
| Times Square Hustler 40: [of a gay man] He has turned tricks, danced in the clubs, ‘worked sugar daddies’ for money, clothes, and housing. | |
| Mad Cows 110: Taught to ensnare ‘saccharine daddies’ (i.e. sugar daddies without the sex). | |
| Indep. Rev. 25 June 6: She had read Lolita at 13 and [...] nurtured fantasies of being taken around American motels by a sugar daddy. | |
| Hooky Gear 96: Either she got a rich dad she never acquaint me with or she got a sugar dad she kept secret. | |
| Jack of Jumps (2007) 307: She had a sugar daddy, a motorist she’d solicited. | |
| Triniday Express 31 Jan. 🌐 I suspect this sugar-daddy has healthy life insurance policy. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Bloody January 44: ‘“Sugar daddies”, she called them. They gave her money, took her out to clubs, the dancing, maybe bought her a present’. | |
| News-Star (Monroe, LA) 23 Jan. A8/1: A web-based company that connects ‘sugar daddies’ with ‘sugar babies’. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 267: I hope that’s like a sugar daddy [...] some motherfucker out there like to spoil a old lady. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 125: She whispered: ‘You could be my sugar daddy’. |
2. as sense 1 but used in non-sexual contexts.
| Don’t Look Back 167: The newest benefactor in Satchel Paige’s near-lifelong litany of baseball sugar daddies was a moneyed Mexican beer distributor. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Blood Miracles 54: [of a gang boss] ‘Right so, fuck off back to your sugar daddy’. | |
| Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘Word on the street is you some kinda neighborhood sugah-daddy’. |
3. (NZ prison) a male visitor / a male partner of a female inmate.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 36: sugar daddy n. male visitor/partner of an inmate. |
4. see sugar baby n.