Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little lad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A little lad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A little
lad .
Etymologies
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lad + -kin
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Examples
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a ‘ladkin’, a little worm, rather than a ‘wormling’ (Sylvester).
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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