lad
/læd/ noun B2- A boy or young man.
- A familiar term of address for a young man. · Come here, lad, and help me shift these boxes.
- A groom who works with horses.
- A scammer.
Plural lads
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Do you see that idle lad riding while his old father has to walk?
In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of women and children: “Why, you lazy old fellow,” cried several tongues at once, “how can you ride upon the beast, while that poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you?
“May I ask, my lad,” I said, in the blandest voice, “what your trade may be?”
“My name is Sawyer—hers is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her—and a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he’s at sea, and no steward in the company more thought of; but when on shore, what with the women and what with liquor shops——”
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