laddie

Definitions

Examples

• How could I, with my heart beating high at the thought of seeing my ain dear laddie before many days?

• A bairn's no the same to him, but a fell bit o' me was buried in my laddie's grave.

• Wi' matchless skeel, Tam o' the Scoots banked over an' brocht the gallant miscreant to terra firma—puir laddie!

• A'm thankitfu' A'm no' a soldier—they tried haird to make me ain, but A' said, 'Noo, laddie—gie me a job—'

• Attacked by owerwhelmin' foorces, shot at afore an' behint, the noble laddie didna lose his nairve.