sugar daddy

Apparently from slang sugar (“money”) and colloquial daddy (“father”).

sugar daddy (plural sugar daddies)

1. (slang) A man who spends money for the benefit of a relationship with an often younger romantic or sexual partner.
   • 2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73:

     During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.

   • 1961, Dallas McCord Reynolds, Black Man's Burden, Project Gutenberg EBook edition:

     "Huh, indeed!" Isobel answered him. "Proposing, or propositioning? If either of you two Romeos ever rattle the doorknob of my room at night again, you're apt to get a bullet through it." Jake winced. "Wasn't me. Look at my gray hair, Isobel. I'm old enough to be your daddy." "Sugar daddy, I suppose," she said mockingly.

• This term typically implies that there is a romantic relationship between the two.

• aristo

• sugar parent

• sugar mama