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Laddie

Definition: Laddie

Laddie

Noun

1. 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: Laddie

Synonyms: cub (n), lad (n), sonny (n), sonny boy (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Laddie

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Laddie

DomainTitle

Books

  • Charles Arnoldi, Laddie John Dill : September 2 through September 28, 1983, Main Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California (reference)

  • Highland Laddie Gone (reference)

  • I Know An Old Laddie (reference)

  • Laddie (reference)

  • Laddie : the story of a lovable dog (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Laddie

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)70.71%7039,981
Noun (proper)29.29%2964,444
                    Total100.00%99N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Laddie

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Laddie

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Laddie

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

puer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Laddie

Derivations

Words beginning with "laddie": laddies. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Laddie"

Words rhyming with "laddie" (pronounced 'Lad"die'): Geordie. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Laddie

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Laddie


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 64 64 69 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01100100 01100100 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#100 &#100 &#105 &#101

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

466770707571

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INDEX

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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