dollar of the daddies en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɑlɚ ə(v)ðə ˌdædiz/ (General-American)
- /ˈdɒlə‿ɹə(v)ðə ˌdadiz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology
A parodic alteration of dollar of the fathers (referring to the Founding Fathers or one's ancestors).
Meanings
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(colloquial, obsolete) The pre-1873 American silver dollar.
And now irreverent jokers complain that the "Dollar of the Daddies" is below pa.
1877, “Currency”, in American Journal of Numismatics, volume XIII, Boston Numismatic Society, page 108:You say that you “want to restore silver"; now let us have the old conditions. “We want the 'dollar of the daddies',” is your cry.
1896, “Appendix”, in Congressional Record: containing the procedures and debates of the Fifty-Fourth Congress, First Session, volume XXVIII, Government Printing Office, page 127:Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.
1898 September 14, Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr., “Curiosities of American Coinage”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 53, D. Appleton & Company, page 601:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dollars of the daddies | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| dollar of our daddies | alternative | lexicographic |