LADDIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laddie mean? 

• LADDIE (noun)
  The noun LADDIE has 1 sense:

1. a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

  Familiarity information: LADDIE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADDIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cub; lad; laddie; sonny; sonny boy

Hypernyms ("laddie" is a kind of...):

boy; male child (a youthful male person)

 Context examples 

Do not think very harshly of me, laddie.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great respect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us—that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in ferment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)