baby daddy

Meaning

Noun

• Father of child in common, particularly unmarried.

Origin

• African-American Vernacular English (General American would be baby's daddy) 1990s, popularized 2000s; Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-father, alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.
• Category:African-American Vernacular English
• Category:Jamaican English