Chiefly Sc. [f. LAD sb. + -IE.] A young lad, a lad. (A term of endearment.)

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1546.  Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1550), 16 b. He had a laddy waytynge on hym called Benignus.

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1721.  Ramsay (title), Yellow Haired Laddie. Ibid. (1728), Soger Laddie.

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1789.  Burns, Ep. to Dr. Blacklock, vi. I hae a wife and twa wee laddies.

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1865.  G. Macdonald, A. Forbes, 51. I ken naething agen the laddie.

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1884.  Annie Swan, Dorothea Kirke, xvii. 155. ‘Aunt Janet?’ ‘Ay, laddie.’

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