Southerners say "Big Daddy"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blanche Deveraux and Tennessee Williams are the only people I've heard use it. It's not common.

I think maybe one of the characters in Designing Women used the phrase too!

(I loved watching Julia Sugarbaker in action )

[Anonymous]

It's his nickname. Dense much?

[Anonymous]

I love it when you call me Big Pop-pa
Throw your hands in the air, if youse a true player

[Anonymous]

I live in Richmond and have never heard that.

[Anonymous]

I immediately thought of that tramp on Atlanta housewives who wasn't actually a housewife when she started on the show, but the kept woman/mistress of a mysterious benefactor called big poppa.

She is now married to a football player and just recently popped out kids 5 and 6-the last 4 are his.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's his nickname. Dense much?

No kidding! Whether it's a common nickname is the point. Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Never heard it and I live in the South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's his nickname. Dense much?

No kidding! Whether it's a common nickname is the point. Bless your heart.

Well , aren't you a peach. Bless your heart right back

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I'm a sixth generation southerner and lived in the deep South my entire life until I came here. And I never ever onece heard anyoen in real life called Big Daddy.

Same here. I don't know anybody named Big Daddy lol. (I'm from Georgia which is about as Southern as it gets.)

Big Daddy is more of a Louisiana thing, I think. It might come from translating " grand pere."

First PP here. I am actually from Louisiana. Still never heard it used except in movies etc. -- usually the same movies where people use "y'all" to address individual people. I.e. movies made by non-southerners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love it when you call me Big Pop-pa
Throw your hands in the air, if youse a true player

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I'm a sixth generation southerner and lived in the deep South my entire life until I came here. And I never ever onece heard anyoen in real life called Big Daddy.

Same here. I don't know anybody named Big Daddy lol. (I'm from Georgia which is about as Southern as it gets.)

Mississippi here. Generations back. 36 members of my family graduated from Ole Miss, blah, blah, blah. They don't come more southern that I. And I've never heard anyone use the phrase "big daddy".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I'm a sixth generation southerner and lived in the deep South my entire life until I came here. And I never ever onece heard anyoen in real life called Big Daddy.

Same here. I don't know anybody named Big Daddy lol. (I'm from Georgia which is about as Southern as it gets.)

+2. I think it sounds kind of put on, actually!

[Anonymous]

Grand = Big, Father = Daddy.

[Anonymous]

I have actually heard southerners use "Big Daddy", but I went to a major Southern university and ended up having a few friends that came from really entrenched southern families. It's not that common in the South.

[Anonymous]

Black thing.