"sugar daddy" (and "lollypop")

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

"Lollypop" here is interesting. It's an exact parallel to "sugar daddy." (In British slang, "lolly" = money; and of course, cant "sugar" = money).

Gerald Cohen

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>   Maines & Grant's _Wise-Crack Dictionary_ of 1926 has "Sugar Daddy--Girl's lollypop for the evening" (p. 13).
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