laddie Formerly chiefly Sc.
(ˈlædɪ)
[f. lad n. + -ie.]
A young lad, a lad. (A term of endearment.)
| 1546 Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 16 b, He had a laddy waytynge on hym called Benignus. 1721 Ramsay (title) Yellow Haired Laddie. 1728 ― Soger Laddie. 1789 Burns Ep. to Dr. Blacklock vi, I hae a wife and twa wee laddies. 1865 G. Macdonald A. Forbes 51, I ken naething agen the laddie. 1884 A. S. Swan Dorothea Kirke xvii. 155 ‘Aunt Janet?’ ‘Ay, laddie’. 1919 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 1961–62 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! |