Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boy or young man; a lad.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A lad; a boy; a lover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A lad; a male sweetheart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small boy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Etymologies
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Examples
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He used to read it over almost every day, and sometimes, near the end, he would say to me, "Colin laddie, will you read it to me – the little woman's last letter."
Aleta Dey 1919
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The laddie was a perfect world's wonder every Sunday, and would have been laughed at out of his seven senses, had he not at last rebelled and fairly thrown it off.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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The laddie was a perfect world's wonder every Sunday, and would have been laughed at out of his seven senses, had he not at last rebelled and fairly thrown it off.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Unfortunately there are a lot of other magazines out there and I don't think many of the "laddie" magazines teach you anything to be proud of.
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Unfortunately there are a lot of other magazines out there and I don't think many of the "laddie" magazines teach you anything to be proud of.
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Soft core "laddie" magazines, issues of Sports Illustrated and even Victoria's Secret catalogues stole its customers on one side -- and newly available hard corn porn on cable stole them from the other.
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Mr. Traill really wanted to detain Bobby he had only to withhold the magic word "laddie," that no one else had used toward the little dog since Auld Jock died.
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902
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He addressed all boys indiscriminately as "laddie," though he usually alluded to the younger ones as "smallest of created things," "infinitesimal scrap of humanity," or "most diminutive of men"; but, wildly eccentric as he was, no one ever thought of laughing at him.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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Brother Bart was ministering to a very white-faced "laddie," and thanking
Killykinick 1888
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It's because we consider placating the readers of laddie mags just so beneath them.
Naked Female Comedians: Please Put Your Clothes Back On (PHOTOS) 2011
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