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Lad

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1440, OED Evaluation: N/A

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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So Jake said, "well" he said "give me five dollars" and he said "this young lad here has to come and work for me for a week." So mom, she says to me, she says "well does that sound alright to you James?"
Boy
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I ah- I don't know. I- I only know- I only know Jack. But anyway he had- I had this black and white picture of Jack and I and- and another young lad at ah- at the nursery school with Santa Claus.
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...we were going to get in the room alright, and along come this drunk, and he walked right into the room. Well you talk about a lad coming back out of there in a hurry.
Boy
And I looked and here's this fella walking in. Strapping big good looking lad, and all at once it hit me who he was. And I could-- and I was closer and just close as I am to you, and you-know I don't know why I didn't s-- you-know speak to him. And I- I'm surprised at him coming in there all alone. But anyhow he went over and they interviewed him there, that's the closest I got to him.
Boy
And they like venison they just love the- eat- he's eaten venison every time he comes in here "I had venison last night. We got some dandy's last year ho ho ho just big lads." And ah no if things you-know and they didn't get anything I would.
Boy
And when Ed was just a young lad him and Roy was great friends, and its just what I’ve seen rub off that Ed and- and Trevor now are great friends, so he talked to Trevor and-this, and I think it’s what got Trevor going into the police business so.
Boy
Because he said, "He'd a book there reading about Donald-Duck and these episodes up north." Just foolish things like that though, this fella name of Ed-Laker and he was an awful lad.
Boy
Just stay right on the- round and round. I used to- I used to go to Apsley in the winter time, ah one or two day's a week and I'd meet a couple of lads this here Clark-McMillar and another fella at what they call A-- Ann-Struther-Lake turn.
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My brother-in-law he used to be great lad for reading, and ah this lad in Peterborough phoned, name of Laker, and he said- and this is the truth and I believe him he said, "I walked out in the afternoon." He said, "Left my watch."
Boy
No, no him and Earl Garner and another lad hunt by themselves, they're not that far away they wouldn't be any further than here to oh maybe Jack-and-Jill-Farms. Yeah. No trouble to walk.
Boy
Oh yeah. Yeah we had quite a few delivery boys, it was a fellow the name of Bob-Faust and he’d dead now. He died fairly young and ah but they were good lads. And who else? Oh there’s one lad I forget what his name was. I had about four different ones over a period of time you-know?
Boy
That was Capital-Theatre there and they were the two main ones. And the Region was kind-of a western, most people- or a lot of us lads right go to them western shows.
Boy
Well you-know- you-know he was- he's- he's a bit of a cool lad you-know. Oh yeah but he was in the memorial-centre- he was coming to the memorial-centre, him and another girl and Roy was working for McCain's-Frozen-Foods at the time, so he said to the fella at the restaurant there he said, "You any idea what room Hank-Snow might be in tomorrow night?"
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Yeah him and Ed-Gorman and um a couple more lads they hunt one- Roy's got a hundred-and-thirty-five acres in there and ah there's a fella from Toronto who's got three-hundred which give him permission to hunt it, and Ned-Walkins that's- he's got um maybe two-hundred acres.
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And I really enjoyed having John home. Like a lot of people are like, you-know, "Is he driving you insane" or-whatever, but no like, he- he was a better person being off and not working so much. 'Cause he's worked ever since he was a young lad eh and ah- and he- he needs to retire in- two or three years.
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Speaker: Yes it was yes. Ah no wait that was the lad's ah the men's was first-south. Interviewer: Oh okay. I remember the- the south um they had a- Speaker: Yeah you'd go straight in the front door and right down. Mm-hm yeah.
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I can remember one day out in the front, way out in front of my apartment, they were sinking right into the asphalt, and ah, you- you-know, I went up there and the- the young lad's father wasn't home and ah, when he got home, I'll tell you, I can hear that young lad getting his back side tanned.
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I used to work with horses when I was a young lad, yeah. We had no tractors at that time. A-- all horses at-that-time, mm-hm.
Boy
If- if ah, like if he's robbing you or-something, like, hm. Like a raccoon, they're bad lads you-know, sometimes. Or porcupine when I had my cattle. I've had ah, my cow'll put the- their nose right in a raccoon- or ah, w-- what do you call that, with all the prickers there?
Boy
It was eight or ten cows or maybe four or five lad doing it, you-know-what-I-mean? Lots of help, and no money. Lots of help (laughs).
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