Daddie's girl

Daddie's girl (plural Daddie's girls)

1. Alternative spelling of daddy's girl.
   • 1931, Maternity and Child Welfare, volumes XV–XVI, London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., →OCLC, page 168, columns 1–2:

     The last sign I am going to mention to-day is a very strong attachment for one particular person. I mean a “Mummie’s boy” or “Nannie’s baby” or “Daddie’s girl.” It is natural for a baby or a toddler to be fondest of those who have fed, bathed and dressed him, played with him (not too much, I hope) and cared for him but there comes a time—the earlier the better—when he wants to try to do things for himself, to feel his feet, and to begin to learn independence.

   • 2004, Jean Chapman, chapter 15, in Danced Over the Sea (Philipps-Sinclair; 2), Sutton, London: Severn House Large Print, →ISBN, pages 237–238:

     ‘You know,’ he whispered in her neck, ‘you give a whole new meaning to the phrase “Daddie’s girl”.’ […] ‘I’ve tried all ways to please you, to show you that as my husband you’re first in my life. […] I’m pussyfooting around you no more – like it or lump it, my father is part of my life, I’m part of him, and I won’t let you pull me in two over this any more.’

   • 2018 spring, Bart Ziino, “‘They Seem To Understand All About The War’: Australian Children and the First World War”, in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, volume 11, number 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 236:

     Mary Cousins, whose husband died at Fromelles in 1916, sadly noted that her three-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, “is always asking for her Daddie to come home to her. She is a real Daddie’s girl.”

   • 2019 July 18, Cinzia, “Chris’s Abusive Childhood”, in Broken Life: Surviving Child Abuse, PTSD and MST, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, chapter 17 (New Unit):

     [H]er mom wrote to her and told her she had left her dad. She was happy for her mom. Although sad she said because they got a divorce. She had said, she also wanted to be a Daddie’s girl but, he never loved her or her mom. So that was impossible.