laddien.
/ˈladi/, U.S. /ˈlædi/, Scottish English /ˈladɪ/ Formerly chiefly Scottish.
A young lad, a lad. (A term of endearment.)
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the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]
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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > of or to a man > of or to a boy
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laddie1721
1721 Ramsay (title) Yellow Haired Laddie.
1728 Ramsay Soger Laddie.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 491 I hae a wife and twa wee laddies.
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. xiv. 106 I ken naething agen the laddie.
1884 A. S. Swan Dorothea Kirke xvii. 155 ‘Aunt Janet?’ ‘Ay, laddie’.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv. 171 ‘I've got a headache.’ ‘I thought you would have, laddie, when I saw you getting away with the liquid last night.’
1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 66 ‘Now get yourself a beer,’ he said. ‘Pour a couple of beers, laddie.’
1973 J. Porter It's Murder with Dover iii. 22 I've been ready for the last bleeding half-hour, laddie!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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