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Dada   /dˈɑdˌɑ/   Listen
Dada

noun
1.
An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk.  Synonyms: dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop.
2.
A nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty.  Synonym: dadaism.






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"Dada" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Oh, dada," Mabyn cried, "you don't know how it happened; but they couldn't have got married there. There's that horrid old wretch, Mr. Roscorla—and Wenna was quite a slave to him and afraid of him—and the only way was to carry her away from ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various

... popinjay. Liebknecht is a man. Flames in his heart. But a poor orator. He will be killed. They must kill him. A little Jew, Haase, has brains. You will meet him. And the Dadaists—they know how to laugh. The cult of the absurd. Perhaps the next emperor of Germany will be a Dada. An Ober Dada—who knows? Once the world learns to laugh we may expect radical changes. And in Muenchen I know a dancer, Mizzi. Dear God, what legs! You must come there to see legs. Faces in the Rhineland. Ankles in ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht

... call at all to be frettin'; I have a right to know better, so I have. Me poor dada is gone where he's out of his throubles, please God; an' amn't I too well off myself here in this grand place, with me a'nt an' everywan so kind to me? Ye ought to be ashamed o' yourself, Elleney, to go cryin' an' ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)



Words linked to "Dada" :   father, male parent, art movement, artistic movement, begetter, daddy



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