"sugar daddy" (and "lollypop")

[Jonathan Lighter]

My thought exactly.

  However, the precise nuance the editors had in mind may have been "a fellow willing to spend money on a girl on a date."

  JL

"Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU> wrote:
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"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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