[f. LADY sb. + -KIN.] A little lady; occas. used as a term of endearment.
1853. Miss E. S. Sheppard, Ch. Auchester, I. 321. I had missed it in my room—that baby of mine, that doll, that ladykin.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 315. The young ladykin whom the solemn vowing concerned had lingered round the choir screen.
1884. Browning, Ferishtah, Camel-driver, 46. ‘Ha, Ladykin, Still at thy frolics, girl of gold?’ laughed he.
