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Definition: Laddie |
LaddieNoun1. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "laddie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Synonyms: LaddieSynonyms: cub (n), lad (n), sonny (n), sonny boy (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Aye, ye have, laddie. Frequently. (Lady and the Tramp; writing credit: Ward Greene; Erdman Penner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Laddie (1940) The Riding of the Laddie (2003) | |
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| "Laddie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.71% of the time. "Laddie" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.71% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (proper) | 29.29% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 99 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
precept laddie | 9 |
laddie | 8 |
laddie john dill | 4 |
highland laddie | 3 |
ball golf laddie | 2 |
club golden golf laddie | 2 |
duke laddie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laddie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | seun (boy, lad, son). (various references) | |
Albanian | njeri (creature, Cully, dog, homo, human, human being, man, one, person, relative), djalosh (guy, lad, stripling). (various references) | |
Arabic | غلام (boy, chap, child, guy, man, nipper, punk, shaver), صبي صغير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | момък (chap, chappie, egg, fish, kipper, lad, young man), момче (boy, bud, chap, chappy, fellow, gossoon, guy, kid, knave, lad, loon, man child, son of adam, urchin). (various references) | |
Czech | mladík (boy, chap, lad, stripling, young man, youngster, youths), hoch (boy, lad), chlapec (boy, date, lad, man, son, youngster). (various references) | |
Dutch | knaap (boy, lad), jongen (boy, lad). (various references) | |
French | môme (lad), gamin (lad). (various references) | |
German | steppke (nipper), Knabe (boy, lad), kleine (baby, chicken, little one, nipper, peewee, small, sprog, sproglet), junge (boy, chap, cub, fellow, guy, Jack, kid, kitten, knave, lad, male child, nestling, offspring, oh boy!, pup, puppy, young, young one, youngster), bubi (little boy, pansy), bürschchen (little fellow, stripling). (various references) | |
Greek | παιδάριο, παλλικαρόπουλο, παλληκαρόπουλο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ער (boy, child, lad, stripling, youngster, youth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | legényke (groom), fiúcska. (various references) | |
Irish | gasúr (bairn, boy, child), garsún (boy), buachaill (boy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addielay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rapaz (Bob, boy, fellow citizen, go-soon, guy, he, house-boy, jockey, lad, sapling, stripling, youngling, youngster). (various references) | |
Romanian | flãcãuş, flãcãu (bachelor, chap, fellow, guy, lad, scout, Swain, young, youth), bãieţaş (brat, chit, lad, nipper, shrimp, urchin). (various references) | |
Russian | мальчуган (nipper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | momčić. (various references) | |
Spanish | zagal (boy, lad, shepherd boy, Swain, young man, youth), rapaz (lad, nipper, predaceous, predacious, predatory, rapacious), pibe (kid, lad), niño (baby, bairn, boy, child, dear, infant, junior, kid, lad), muchacho (boy, Cully, lad, servant, youngster), mozo (accomodated employee, barman, busboy, collector, inamorato, jack, jester, junior, kid, killer, lad, lodged employee, luggage porter, porter, railway porter, server, skid, skid foot, supporting leg, waiter, young, young man), chico (bairn, boy, chap, chigoe, child, fellow, infant, junior, kid, lad, little, Matey, small), chavo (lad), chaval (boy, kid, lad, shaveling, youngster). (various references) | |
Swedish | pojke (boy, lad). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"็กหนุ่ม (chield, lad). (various references) | |
Turkish | oğlan (boy, catamite, lad, nipper), erkek çocuk (boy, lad, man child, shaver, young shaver), delikanlı (a slip of a boy, adolescent, boy, conceited pup, gossoon, juvenescent, killer, lad, palikar, pup, puppy, sapling, sprig, stripling, teen, teenager, teeny, whelp, young man, youngster, youth). (various references) | |
Ukranian | хлопчисько. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chú bé tí hon, anh ch ng trai trẻ. (various references) | |
Welsh | hogyn (boy, lad), crwtyn (boy, brat), bachgen (boy, son). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | puer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "laddie": laddies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "laddie" (pronounced 'Lad"die'): Geordie. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dialed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-l" | |
-1 letter: addle, aided, ailed, dedal, ideal, idled, laded. | |
-2 letters: aide, dale, dead, deal, deil, deli, dial, died, diel, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, lied. | |
-3 letters: add, aid, ail, ale, dad, dal, del, did, die, eld, lad, lea, led, lei, lid, lie. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, de, ed, el, id, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-l" | |
+1 letter: addible, alidade, dallied, dialled, dilated, laddies, plaided. | |
+2 letters: alidades, beladied, biddable, buddleia, deadlier, deadlift, deadline, decidual, defilade, deicidal, derailed, detailed, dialoged, dialysed, dialyzed, dihedral, disabled, dualized, islanded, landside, redialed, tideland. | |
+3 letters: adenoidal, advisedly, aldehydic, buddleias, dandelion, daredevil, datelined, deadliest, deadlifts, deadlight, deadlines, decidable, declaimed, defiladed, defilades, deleading, depilated, dialogued, dihedrals, diplomaed, discalced, displaced, displayed, disvalued, dividable, enfiladed, glissaded, headlined, holidayed, idealised, idealized, impleaded, invalided, laddering, landsides, landslide, lapidated, middleman, misdialed, palisaded, redialled, tidelands, underlaid, validated, videoland. | |
+4 letters: acidulated, additively, admittedly, begladding, blandished, dandelions, daredevils, daylighted, deadlifted, deadlights, deadliness, defilading, defoliated, delineated, detailedly, diabolized, dilapidate, disallowed, disclaimed, dislocated, dismantled, displanted, displeased, disrelated, dovetailed, duodecimal, duplicated, elucidated, epididymal, feudalized, fiddleback, fiddlehead, gladdening, ladderlike, landladies, landslides, lapidified, liquidated, maledicted, manifolded, misdialled, mishandled, mispleaded, paddlefish, paradiddle, railroaded, resaddling, saddleries, sidesaddle, taradiddle, vandalised, vandalized, videolands, wildcatted, windlassed. | |
+5 letters: adrenalized, backslidden, billboarded, blackbirded, bladderlike, daredevilry, deadeningly, deadlifting, deadlocking, debilitated, decalcified, decimalized, dedicatedly, deglaciated, degradingly, delaminated, deliberated, delocalized, demandingly, demoralized, depolarized, desalinated, desalinized, devitalized, devocalized, diadelphous, digitalized, dilapidated, dilapidates, disannulled, discardable, disentailed, duodecimals, endocardial, federalized, fiddlebacks, fiddleheads, fluoridated, griddlecake, interlarded, invalidated, lifeguarded, lightheaded, maddeningly, midlatitude, modularized, multibladed, multiheaded, nondisabled, overplaided, paradiddles, philandered, philodendra, pigheadedly, radicalised, radicalized, redisplayed, revalidated, scandalised, scandalized, sidesaddles, skedaddling, stridulated, taradiddles, tarradiddle, thalidomide, unadvisedly, undecidable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 64 64 69 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.. -.. .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100100 01100100 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a d d i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0064 0064 0069 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466770707571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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