sugar daddy

noun

Definition of sugar daddynext
as in donor
one that helps another with gifts or money the only reason the town has any Independence Day fireworks in the first place is because the Internet tycoon has willingly become the event's de facto sugar daddy

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Recent Examples of sugar daddy This sugar daddy isn’t stopping his spending. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026 Instead, her sugar daddy, a finance guy in his late sixties, suggested a slow-growing, low-risk investment account with Charles Schwab that would be a safer bet than Wall Street. — Jason Parham, Wired News, 3 Apr. 2026 Many might think the 28-year age gap is prima facie evidence of a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship. — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026 Sanders needs Alabama’s gravitas or Texas Tech’s sugar daddies. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sugar daddy
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  1. donor
  2. donator
  3. fairy godmother
Noun
  • Once a payment is authorized by the donor (and not made fraudulently by someone else), getting those funds back becomes even harder, Eva Velasquez, CEO of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center, told Fortune.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The National Kidney Registry launched in 2008 with an eye toward saving and improving the lives of people facing kidney failure by increasing the quality, speed and number of living donor transplants around the globe and protecting living donors.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of donor
Noun
  • Contributors can transfer stock to the Treasury, which will then invest the funds into accounts in line with the donator’s guidelines.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 6 July 2026
  • That’s the gold standard of cancer designations that allows patients and donators alike to understand Sylvester’s standards.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
Definition of donator
Noun
  • Dory, who is the baby of her three-kid family, invents friends, villains and a bearded fairy godmother for company.
    — Liz Rosenberg, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026
  • If Lizzie is Cinderella, then actor Vicky Krieps’s Bridget Sullivan, the Bordens’ live-in maid, is her fairy godmother.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of fairy godmother

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“Sugar daddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sugar%20daddy. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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