[ UK /lˈædi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
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How To Use laddie In A Sentence

  • The only things to be careful about were a little, shiny, slender snake, with a head as bright as mother's copper kettle, and a big thick one with patterns on its back like those in Laddie's geometry books, and a whole rattlebox on its tail; not to eat any berry or fruit I didn't know without first asking father; and always to be sure to measure how deep the water was before I waded in alone. Laddie: A True Blue Story
  • 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
  • Why am I reflecting glumly on such thoughts as: ‘Beware your dreams, laddie, for some day they may be granted’?
  • Out of the ivory tower and onto the streets with you, laddie.
  • Wid ye forsake yer ain wedded lord tae gae follow wi the gypsy laddies Gypsy Laddies
  • 'For the young laird -- a feckless, ugsome, sickly wean he was, puir laddie -- a knight cam by, an' behoved to take him to the King. The Caged Lion
  • How blest were the days o 'langsyne, when a laddie, vol. iii., The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
  • Atmosphere is vital, laddie, you can't go to a rendezvous like this dressed in dirty khaki pants and veldschoen. it would ruin the whole thing. When the Lion Feeds
  • Someone must have been really sick to hurt that wee laddie.
  • Then there's your pal, the old chap down at the harbor, and the court laddie who gives me the S. A. news. THE SHIPPING NEWS
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