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Boo Daddy 

1. A type of Southern conjure magic that keeps haints, hags, and plat-eyes away. It is made from marsh mud, Spanish moss, sweet grass, and salt water (from the article "Boo Daddies: Low Country Ghostbusters" by Bob Ciminel). The boo daddy is incubated in an oyster and can be carried around or worn around one's neck.
2. In a folktale about the Boo Hag from North Carolina, the Boo Daddy was a demon that would be fed a victim that was lured to their death by the Boo Hag. The latter took the form of a beautiful woman and married a young man whom she met at a dance. She disappeared every night and the man didn't find out what she was until he saw a woman who worked with hoodoo magic, seeing as the town's travelling priest had moved onto his next parish. Had he not destroyed the Hag, she would have fed him to the Boo Daddy. (This is but one story about Boo Hags, and it is a variation of a story from Georgia.)
1. From "Boo Daddies: Low Country Ghostbusters" by Bob Ciminel: "If you are afraid of ghosts, witches, and goblins that roam the streets after dark, keep yourself a boo-daddy in your pocket or around your neck and the scary creatures will stay away from you and go frighten someone who doesn't have any protection. The more you have, the farther those creatures will run until they stay away forever." --Translation of a Low Country saying.

The Boo Daddy is NOT a sugar daddy or anything else anyone on here says they are, and I have NO clue where they got it from.

The Boo Daddy is from Southern folklore, and it is either a protective amulet or a type of demon.
Boo Daddy by Stryx December 7, 2011
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Boo Daddy 

Someone who your dating, who you like alot and are in a relationship wit.
That's my Boo Daddy!!

I miss my Boo Daddy alot =p
Boo Daddy by Urban Chicaa April 25, 2011

Boo Daddy 

An elderly British gentleman-concubine. One how bestows ornate gifts to a younger lover.
*in an English accent*

"I was unable to sign on this month, I shall have to contact Gregory, my boo daddy..."

*in a Compton accent*

"What, Mike G, you in the front wit yo Boo Daddy (expletive deleted)... (we barely) in London, and he done already got some booty... (expletive deleted)..."
-Tyler, the Creator
Boo Daddy by cwillsification October 25, 2011

Boo Daddy 

A Boo Daddy is like a sugar daddy but instead they steal stuff for you instead of buy you things.
My Boo Daddy just finessed me a new ring
Boo Daddy by Jdndbdhe January 22, 2017
A male who is your spartner or someone you talk to heavy that provides you with constant dick and gifts.
Sunny: who is Dondre to you?

Mandy: that’s my boodaddy !
boodaddy by Smartgirl307 May 28, 2018
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