lad

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A boy or young man.
2. A hedonistic or irresponsible young man; A Jack the lad.
3. A familiar term of address for a young man.
4. A groom who works with horses.
5. (colloquial) The penis.

Sinonieme

boy

👦

youth

laddie

guy

young man

chap

young boy

young person

young people

fellow

stripling

youngster

bloke

fella

child

🧒

feller

sonny

little boy

girl

👧

cuss

blighter

shaver

male child

teenager

adolescent

dude

gent

sport

nipper

male youngster

kid

🧒

cub

sonny boy

Fry

tike

young male

callant

gossoon

common rudd

dandiprat

adolescence

sonny Jim

amigo

bird

🐦

boyo

brother

👨‍👦

buster

cobber

comrade

dog

🐕

friend

grease

johnny

knave

learner

loon

man

👨

mate

🧉

minor

nestling

page

pal

pupil

schoolboy

son

sort

sprout

student

🧑‍🎓

swain

tiddler

tyke

type

young

young fellow

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/læd/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English ladde (“foot soldier, servant; male commoner; boy”), from late Old English *ladda (attested in Old English personal byname Ladda), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse ladd (“hose, woolen stocking; sock”), which may have undergone semantic shift to mean a term of abuse (e.g. foolish youth, youngster of lower social status, etc.); thence by connotative amelioration coming to mean any young fellow. Compare Norwegian ladd (“rough sock, woolen or felt slipper”) and the -ladd in compounds Askeladd/Askeladden (a nickname in fairy tales, "Ash Lad") and tusseladd (“nincompoop”). See also Swedish ladder (“old shoes”), lodde (“Frisian shoe”), lädder (“socks”), all said to be related to Old Norse loðinn (“hairy, shaggy, woolly”), loddi (“shaggy dog”).