The word 'godfather' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the male godparent of a child or the male who stands in as a father figure. For example: "John was my godfather and always provided me with fatherly advice."
12.38pm: Here's Mitt Romney from today's episode of the Hugh Hewitt radio show, giving what we may call a Romneyesque (i.e. weird) response to a question about whether he's the "godfather of Obamacare": If I'm the godfather of this thing, then it gives me the right to kill it.
A fictionalised version of their story was broadcast earlier this year on Japanese television called Massan with Charlotte Kate Fox playing a character based on Rita Cowan and Tetsuji Tamayama as the godfather of Japanese whisky.
Viet Dinh, a former senior official in George W. Bush's justice department, is godfather to a son of Lachlan Murdoch, Murdoch's eldest son.
"So I know there has been all this stuff about me being godfather of one of his children.
André Gide, Saint-Exupéry's literary godfather, had no time for Consuelo, who was also dismissed by one of her in-laws, Simone de Saint-Exupéry Saint-Exupéryasd a "Comtarte du cinémand
Kennedy's body was found at his Fort William home by his partner Carole Macdonald, 57, the widow of Murdo Macdonald, one of his oldest friends – and godfather to Kennedy's son, Donald – who died from cancer in 2007.
I discovered he started an experimental theatre in Edinburgh, co-founded a magazine celebrating sexual freedom in 1960s Amsterdam, and has been called the "godfather of social networking" following his 1980s series of self-published People-to-People guides, which listed addresses of local people willing to help or host travellers.
The novel explores the "comical see-saw" of the flesh and the spirit through the sinister Gilbert who is a controlling rationalist, prudently afraid of "the Passions", and Fenwick who pursues his desires while struggling to avert the threats to his identity occasioned by his strange pact with his godfather.
Unsurprising, really, given Blatter's attitude towards his female peers: he referred to himself as the "godfather" of female football and famously suggested women play in tighter, more feminine shorts.
His last words to Jo Apted, to whose two sons he was godfather, were, "I've had enough of this".
Scum He's now the godfather of geezerdom, but Ray Winstone first staked his claim to being the "daddy" back in 1977 with Scum.
