lad

Middle English ladde (“foot soldier, servant”).

• IPA^(key): /læd/
• (unstressed, sometimes) (rare) IPA^(key): /ləd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

lad (plural lads)

1. (Britain) A boy or young man.
2. (Britain) A Jack the lad; a boyo.

   I think he reckons he's a bit of a lad.

   Last night I was out drinking with the lads.

3. A familiar term of address for a young man.

   Come here, lad, and help me shift these boxes.

4. A groom who works with horses (also called stable-lad).
5. (Ireland, colloquial) The penis.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, page 225:

     — The lad stood to attention anyhow, he said with a sigh. She's a gamey mare and no mistake.

   • 1995 May 5, “The Passion of St Tibulus”, in Father Ted, written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews:

     Mrs Glynn: Oh but there's this great bit in it. You see, there was this girl, but then you find out it's not a girl but a man!
     Mrs Sheridan: And he got his lad out.

   • 2007, Unknown, translated by Ciaran Carson, The Táin, →ISBN, page 175:

     And he loaded the chariot with clods and boulders and cobbles that he fired at anyone who came to stare at him and jeer him, stark naked as he was, with his long lad and his acorns dangling down through the floor of the chariot.

   • 2010, Loucinda McGary, The Wild Irish Sea: A Windswept Tale of Love and Magic, →ISBN, page 11:

     Just thinking about how she would look without her clothes made his lad twitch with anticipation.

Prevalent in Northern English dialects such as Geordie, Mackem, Scouse and Northumbrian.

• ladhood

• fellow-me-lad
• ladette
• laddie
• laddish
• lad's love
• lass
• lassie

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

• lad at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary

• ADL, DAL, DLA, Dal, LDA, dal

lad

1. languid, lazy, indolent

lad n (singular definite ladet, plural indefinite lad)

1. bed (platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled), eg. truckbed

lad

1. imperative of lade

lad

1. Imperative singular of laden.

lad

1. Alternative form of ladde

lad

1. imperative of lade

• IPA^(key): /lɑːd/

From Proto-Germanic *laidō. Cognate with Old High German leita (German Leite), Old Norse leið.

lād f

1. way, course
2. passage, watercourse, lode
3. carrying, bringing
4. provision, sustenance

• English: load; lode

Old English. Akin to Old Frisian lēde, lāde.

lād f

1. exculpation, clearing of guilt or accusation, purgation
2. defense against a charge, excuse

• lādian
• werlād

• (Sutsilvan) lo

From Latin lātus.

lad m (feminine singular lada, masculine plural lads, feminine plural ladas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) wide, broad

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) lartg
• (Puter, Vallader) larg

• laddie

From Middle English ladde, from North Germanic.

• IPA^(key): /lad/, /lɑd/

lad (plural lads)

1. lad
2. son
3. menial
4. male sweetheart

lad (plural lads)

1. heart

• ladik