ladkin

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noun

A little lad.

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Meanings

nounladkin (plural ladkins)

plural ladkins

  1. archaicA little lad.

    Tharrhon that young ladkin hight, / He prayed this aged Sire for to reveal / What way this Dragons poyſonous deſpight, / And ſtrong Pantheothens inwalling might, / We may eſcape.

    1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 3, stanza 31, page 44

Origin

From lad + -kin.

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Chicago

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