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PRONUNCIATION:

(NO-buh-dad-ee)

MEANING:

noun:
1. God.
2. Someone who is no longer considered worthy of respect.

ETYMOLOGY:

Coined by the poet William Blake as a blend of nobody + daddy. Earliest documented use: 1793.

USAGE:

“We should remember that Nicolson at least was trying to rehabilitate Tennyson, to raise him from the fallen pantheon of nineteenth-century Nobodaddies.”
Philip Larkin; Further Requirements; University of Michigan Press; 2004.

“He was a nobodaddy and a clod, and any pimplefaced boy could see that talking to him was a waste of breath.”
Paul Auster; Mr. Vertigo; Faber; 1994.

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