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chick
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ?icen, ?ycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
chick (plural chicks or (obsolete) chicken)
- A young bird.
- Synonym: fledgling
- Coordinate term: birdlet
- A young chicken.
- (dated, endearing) A young child.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl, Thesaurus:woman
- (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
- 2004, Joe Welzen, The Gutsy Stomach Walker (page 50)
- The Aldis lamp flashes at the underside of each aircraft. It shows that the gear is down. Diegal is relaxing. This is such low responsibility, easy night duty. All the “chicks” (fighter aircraft) are home to roost except one.
- 2004, Joe Welzen, The Gutsy Stomach Walker (page 50)
Derived terms
- chick flick
- chickfriend
- chick lit
- chick magnet
Translations
Verb
chick (third-person singular simple present chicks, present participle chicking, simple past and past participle chicked)
- (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chalmers to this entry?)
Etymology 2
From Hindi ???? f (ciq) and Urdu ??? f (ciq), ultimately from Persian ??? f (ciq).
Noun
chick (plural chicks)
- (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, [1]
- Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]
- 1905, A. C. Newcombe, Village, Town, and Jungle Life in India, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, Chapter VII p. 106, [2]
- It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 2, [3]
- […] at this time of day all the verandas were curtained with green bamboo chicks.
- 1999, Kevin Rushby, Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, New York: St. Martin's Press, Chapter 10, p. 216, [4]
- Outside I could hear the bamboo chick tapping on the door like a blind man's stick on a kerbstone.
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, [1]
Synonyms
- chick-blinds
Derived terms
- chicked
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English chike, from Old English ?icen. Cognate with English chick, and Scots schik.
Noun
chick
- chicken
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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lad
English
Etymology
From Middle English ladde (“foot soldier, servant; male commoner; boy”), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly from Old Norse ladd (“hose, woolen stocking; sock”), undergoing semantic shift to mean a foolish youth, youngster of lower social status; thence by connotative amelioration coming to mean any young fellow.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /læd/
- (unstressed, sometimes) (rare) IPA(key): /l?d/
- Rhymes: -æd
Noun
lad (plural lads)
- (Britain) A boy or young man.
- Coordinate term: lass
- (Britain) A Jack the lad; a boyo.
- Coordinate term: ladette
- A familiar term of address for a young man.
- A groom who works with horses (also called stable-lad).
- Synonym: stable boy
- (Ireland, colloquial) The penis.
Usage notes
Prevalent in Northern English dialects such as Geordie, Mackem, Scouse and Northumbrian.
Derived terms
- ladhood
- signal lad
Related terms
Translations
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?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, [1]
- 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, [2]
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
Further reading
- lad at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary
- lad in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lad”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- ADL, DAL, DLA, Dal, LDA, dal
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lat]
Noun
lad
- genitive plural of lado
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hlað (“heap, stack”)
Adjective
lad
- languid, lazy, indolent
Inflection
Noun
lad n (singular definite ladet, plural indefinite lad)
- bed (platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled), eg. truckbed
Inflection
Verb
lad
- imperative of lade
German
Verb
lad
- singular imperative of laden
Middle English
Noun
lad
- Alternative form of ladde
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lad
- imperative of lade
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??d/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *laid?. Cognate with Old High German leita (German Leite), Old Norse leið. Akin to l?þan (“to go, travel, fare”).
Noun
l?d f
- way, course
- passage, watercourse, lode
- carrying, bringing, leading
- provision, sustenance
Declension
Descendants
- English: load; lode
Etymology 2
Akin to Old Frisian l?de, l?de.
Noun
l?d f
- excuse
- exoneration, exculpation
Declension
Derived terms
- l?dian
- werl?d
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lat/
Noun
lad f
- genitive plural of lada
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Sutsilvan) lo
Etymology
From Latin l?tus.
Adjective
lad m (feminine singular lada, masculine plural lads, feminine plural ladas)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) wide, broad
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) lartg
- (Puter, Vallader) larg
Scots
Alternative forms
- laddie - most common usage
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *laid?. Cognate with Old High German leita (German Leite), Old Norse leið. Akin to l?þan (“to go, travel, fare”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lad/, /l?d/
Noun
lad (plural lads)
- lad
- son
- menial
- male sweetheart
Volapük
Noun
lad (nominative plural lads)
- heart
Declension
Derived terms
- ladik
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