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sky daddy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From sky + daddy, originally in reference to the Christian conception of God the Father resident in Heaven.

Meanings

1. (figuratively, slang) A god.
   • “Magic!” said Billy, clapping his hands with delight. “I talked to my sky daddy. He made a magic dream in your heart.” 2011, John Leonard Köehler, Billy Blue Sky:
   • For starters, having an ideology that explicitly denies the existence of an invisible sky daddy is a bit of a handicap when it comes to assimilating the idea of nightmarish immortal aliens from elsewhere in the multiverse, given that the NIAs in question have historically been identified as gods (subtype: elder). 2010, Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files), New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PR6119.T79 F85 2010, page 81:
   • Nature isn’t some sky daddy, it’s what makes up reality by definition. 2011 November 9, Matt Bush, “Nature doesn’t care about us”, in In which I wax acerbic, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2011:
   • In the book of fairy tales and myths, a big magical sky daddy delivers the populace his own flesh and blood to get horribly slain so that his resurrected son can become your imaginary bearded hippie-friend. 2011, E. A. St. Amant, The New Ancien Régime, →ISBN, page 79:
   • An invisible sky daddy didn’t save all those Chilean miners; real people with science and technology got it done! 2010 October 14, “Well Said”, in The Good Atheist, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2011:
2. (derogatory, figuratively, offensive) God the Father.

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Synonyms

godship · sky fairy · supreme being · manitou · deity · sky fairy · god · divinity · sky daddy