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CTL-W-0316 · Work · 1990s

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Oxford Languages entry via bab.la (fetched in full): 'baby daddy': 'noun (plural baby daddies) (informal) the father of one or more of a woman's children, especially one who is not her husband or current partner.' Matches stored meaning 'father of one's child, unmarried'. Corroboration: Merriam-Webster's gloss as quoted in secondary sources — 'the biological father of a woman's child; especially: one who is not married to or in a long-term intimate relationship with the child's mother'; an OED note via a secondary page lists baby-daddy/baby-mama as 'colloquial, chiefly African-American', with a first citation for baby-mother from the Kingston Daily Gleaner in 1966.

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Oxford Languages entry via bab.la (fetched in full): 'baby daddy': 'noun (plural baby daddies) (informal) the father of one or more of a woman's children, especially one who is not her husband or current partner.' Matches stored meaning 'father of one's child, unmarried'.

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Oxford Languages entry via bab.la (fetched in full): 'baby daddy': 'noun (plural baby daddies) (informal) the father of one or more of a woman's children, especially one who is not her husband or current partner.' Matches stored meaning 'father of one's child, unmarried'. Corroboration: Merriam-Webster's gloss as quoted in secondary sources — 'the biological father of a woman's child; especially: one who is not married to or in a long-term intimate relationship with the child's mother'; an OED note via a secondary page lists baby-daddy/baby-mama as 'colloquial, chiefly African-American', with a first citation for baby-mother from the Kingston Daily Gleaner in 1966.

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