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Definition of Laddie
1. Noun. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
Definition of Laddie
1. n. A lad; a male sweetheart.
Definition of Laddie
1. Noun. (context: Scottish dialect) a small boy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laddie
1. a lad [n -S] - See also: lad
Medical Definition of Laddie
1. A lad; a male sweetheart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laddie
Literary usage of Laddie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1898)
"AS EVERY laddie DOES. BY C. GIBSON. OH, when I was a tiny lad I wandered in aI
made a sturdy walking-stick to climb the wood, highest hill; ..."
2. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"Tune—" The Collier laddie." WHERE live ye, my bonnie lass ? And tell me what they
ca' ye ; My name, she says, is Mistress Jean, And I follow the collier ..."
3. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1892)
"A young woman (Maggie in B) has played cards and dice with a rantin laddie till
she has won a bastard baby. Slighted now by all her friends, ..."
4. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc. by David Herd, Sidney Gilpin, George Paton (1870)
"... laddie, With cock'd-up hat and powder'd wig, Black coat and cuffs fu' clear,
laddie ; A long cravat at him did wag, And buckles at his knee, ..."
5. The Scottish Songs by Robert Chambers (1829)
"Geordie sits in Charlie's chair, Bonny laddie, Highland laddie; Deil cock him
gin he bide there, Bonny laddie, Highland laddie. Charlie yet shall mount the ..."
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