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  • noun childish father, dad

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Examples

  • In Duchamp's day the "art world" was tiny and the initiates were ready for a breakthrough-for new ideas and new media, for "dada" - and the big money wasn't there.

    The Art Newspaper - RSS 2008

  • The so called dada and dons have formally started their business and actively involved in organized crimes and anticrime activities too.

    Nepal: Disappearing Security in Occlusion 2010

  • She loves to say dada, which is completely adorable - just not at 2am in the morning!

    The Red Deer thereddeer 2009

  • She loves to say dada, which is completely adorable - just not at 2am in the morning!

    Archive 2009-07-01 thereddeer 2009

  • He created sleeves for Nick Lowe, the Damned, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and more — many of which cleverly subverted art movements such as dada and constructivism.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • So it's a weird, nonsensical cartoon, the kind of dada-ist, surreal stuff that abounded in the mid-'90s before networks realized that advertisers didn't want to buy time on "kids" shows that weren't actually comprehensible to kids.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • So it's a weird, nonsensical cartoon, the kind of dada-ist, surreal stuff that abounded in the mid-'90s before networks realized that advertisers didn't want to buy time on "kids" shows that weren't actually comprehensible to kids.

    Your Casual Indifference Won't Save You Now Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • He says "dada" now as well as "mama" he is walking all the time now (still falls a lot though too) He climbs on everything (my desk, the kitchen table, the high chair) so I have to watch him like a hawk.

    mamarobbi Diary Entry mamarobbi 2004

  • C. TREDWAY: And the last videoconference, she actually ran to the screen, saying, "dada," waving.

    CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2003 2003

  • He is a lad of twenty-three with a young wife and a little three-year-old girl, who has learned to talk since "dada" saw her, and is her father right over -- full of fun, good-humor, and laughter.

    On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes Mildred Aldrich 1890

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  • This is not a comment.

    March 10, 2007

  • ceci n'est pas une comment?

    March 10, 2007

  • French is for art snobs. ;-)

    March 10, 2007

  • French baby talk: horsie

    December 20, 2007

  • this is not a comment on not a comment

    January 20, 2008

  • Like kafka, but for babies.

    October 6, 2008

  • Defence Against the Dark Arts (Harry Potter).

    October 16, 2008