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Meanings of laddie in English

Portuguese
menino
Catalan
xaval
Spanish
chaval

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

        menino
        Usage of laddie in English
        1
        Much in the same way the Scotch laddie and wee lassie play-
        A History of Nursery Rhymes
        2
        When I took the message frae the telegraph laddie at the door.
        All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
        3
        But there was one braw laddie who did nothing of the sort.
        A Minstrel in France
        4
        Any laddie with a sweet tooth might easily do the same thing.
        Brother and Sister
        5
        Little Wat was a winsome laddie, and the whole household loved him.
        English Literature for Boys and Girls
        6
        The yellow-haired laddie, Gerard Gerardson, belongs not to Fiction but to History.
        The Cloister and the Hearth
        7
        They stared at each other, the landlord serious, the laddie's lip trembling.
        Greyfriars Bobby
        8
        Yes, laddie, I have at last a shop, for one night only.
        Nights in London
        9
        Mesmerism and magic-lanterns, benj and opium, winna explain all facts, Alton, laddie.
        Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
        10
        Come your way in, laddie, and let me look at ye again.
        The Christian: A Story
        11
        Come in and have a drink, laddie, and let's talk it over.
        Love Among the Chickens
        12
        I've thought it all over, laddie, and it's as clear as mud.
        Love Among the Chickens
        13
        Come here now, laddie, and see if you can say your catechism.
        The Scotch Twins
        14
        Oh, laddie, I hae been so uneasy aboot ye all the nicht.
        The Lady of the Shroud
        15
        My guidness, laddie, but you gave poor auld Jane sic a start!
        The Christian: A Story
        16
        Poor laddie, what would be outrecuidance in another is but duteousness in him.
        Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
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