dadliness

noun

1. (informal, uncountable)The quality of being dadly.

   “Dadliness: Bill Cole meets Elise at the school bus with Brenna and Will (top), and later celebrates mom Marianne’s birthday.”

   “>>her dad for some weird reason has / >>decided she shouldn't dye her hair anymore / > / >Prolly because it makes him think he's raising chrysanthemums, not / >daughters. / Well, her hair is normally a dark brown color so what the red dye does is just add auburn highlights to it...it's not a really obnoxious change and I thought looked very nice myself. He's just exercising his omnipotent Dadliness I guess. *shrug*”

   “What are dads for? This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly.”

   “Gradually, through coping with Florida’s tantrums and his fellow fathers’ foibles, he acquires and understanding of what “dadliness” (as he calls it) is all about.”

   “He returns, but not before a funny and often profound exploration of how parents and children behave, and of the essence of “dadliness.””