A boy, youth; a young man, young fellow. Also, in the diction of pastoral poetry, used to denote ‘a young shepherd’. In wider sense applied familiarly or endearingly (sometimes ironically) to a male person of any age, esp. in the form of address my lad
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Yup. I can prove it to you. The young lad was home. Teeth marks are still in that gun stock. |
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Yup. My young lad's got a gun when we were kids. We'd take her out rabbit hunting... |
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He was a retired president of United-States and this was at ah, Gettysburg where his farm was. So another lad and I stopped and there was somebody else there… |
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I-guess. N-- now Doctor-Dill, was a doctor. His son Jess wrote a book about the doctor, eh? And in that book, they say something about Riley. And Jess was just a young lad, but he wrote the book and he said that he ah, thought it was kind of a strange name... |
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Interviewer: What was your typical day like? Speaker: I wasn't a typical young lad. Interviewer: Okay what did you do? Speaker: Well, when I started in grade-seven, I had a sore knee and eventually, it got me down in the civic hospital. |
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They (laughs)- like my mother and father bought this place which would be New-Year's morning sixty- in nineteen-thirteen or the end of this year, they legally took it over. But if there hadn't have been some young lads here, they wouldn't have bought the place. |
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…and he said, "There's somebody important either going or coming" because there was a coloured lad come out in a golf cart and open the gate, so it was Eisenhower. |
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Cha-- uncle-Chalmers phoned up my dad one Saturday dinner time and said, "Could I get one of the lads in and wheel some dry wood into the house for me- into the woodshed." |
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Yeah. One lad come into our yard one day want to know if I'd sell that horse. He says, "Can you ride her?" I say, "You think you're a rider? |
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Young lad used to come to us and tell us first- first prize given to the best step dancer, Jordan-Morgan. |
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But anyway, we get onto the dance floor and we- well we practically (inc) the lads 'cause they were all (inc). And we got them through the square anyway and got them down and i-- and I said to- turned around Chad, I said, "Is that the first one or the second one?" |
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But anyway, we were sitting there talking, the two boys come in and Earl come over and he was stand- talking to me for a minute. And the other lad said, "I told you to leave her alone," to Earl and Earl says, "I'm not leaving her alone." So anyway, that was fine. |
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So I told him to buzz off that night and I was standing back in the- with the crowd of the girls and Earl come along and he put him arm on my shoulder, he says, "Come on red, I want to dance." So oh my God, we get up on a square dance but fun we had putting those lads through the square. |
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There- there must've been but as I said to dad one day, I said, "Well I'm not going to push it. There's no use if you just don't want to talk about it," like you-know- and then Uncle-Ray, the lad that's sitting on grandma's knee. |
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Interviewer: Having too much fun? What were you doing? Speaker: Young lads- Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Fighting and whipping- Interviewer: Fighting? |
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And ah, Harold-Sailor, the lad in the garage there, he was a great fellow who worked hard, he was a fine man |
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And ah, I- it was for a while there, for a couple of years I hunted in there myself. Because we hunted together, gangs of us and-that. So then it got too big a gang for them so they come in now and they hunt with me. They stay with me, the three or four lads. But we hunt in there at my camp. |
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And ah, this tobacco was there too. So she's giving us the strap and a talking-to, and the whole business. And George and Lyle- they were young lads, you-know? |
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And Dad was away this day, I don't know- Dad and Mother both away so. I looks out and- I was up at the house. And here's these two young lads, Lyle and George. |
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And good stuff too, pretty good, there was always a brew going on there. And ah, I used to help him when I was a young lad. And Terry, great guy. |
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