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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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Oh not especially ah there was one young lad that asked me to go to the show to him one night and I wasn't very fond of him (laughs). And- but I couldn't be mean to anybody so I said, "Yeah, well sure I'll go," you-know? So, in long (inc) 'course I knew him from b-- way before but I haven't seen him for quite a while.
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And as you can see, that's the result of ah, the young lad having his friends over at this repair job to my umbrella. It has L-E-D's in it. You crank it up and it shines a nice blue, party like light at night and that was totalled from one Kirkland-Lake gathering...
Boy
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And ah, he said, 'Oh, we have a, ah, a young lad here from northern Ontario,' he says, and um, and he says, 'As you can see, he doesn't even have a chair- a hair on his chest yet.'"
Boy
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In his handcuffs up through the field (laughs). And the coach just says, "Get him lads."
Boy
Speaker: Handed him back over (laughs). "Get him lads." (Laughs)
Boy
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No but I come so very close to it coming from ah coming up from ah Martin-River to ah Martin-River at Temagami and the lad had warned me he pulled a lady out of the car at ah the tracks at ah, at Temagami, where they cross the road there. And she wasn't seriously injured but ah the car was a write-off and the moose had went through her windshield.
Boy
I ah- when I first went with Pitt's-Construction here from Toronto ah a lad watched me climb up the ladder of a thirty-five-ton Caterpillar truck. Ah to put oil in- lift the lid and put oil in.
Boy
So I- I come in this morning and this lad had put brand new tracks on a bulldozer that was about a year or two old.
Boy
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Yeah. You-know got to check in with the young lad there and make sure, you-know, how's school going and- 'cause we bypass each other, we only have supper together every night as a family. Whether, you-know, like whether we see each other at any other time, we have supper at the table every night together.
Boy
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little more um- this is a lot of stuff here. This is a lot of- of band stuff I got there. There's three young lads that learned to play it here.
Boy
Yeah yeah, very interesting. (inc) three other Canadian lads there with me there. Down there- there- I went...
Boy
Yeah. Well, yeah this, some of these things. There's some locals that got in there to start. I got one killed, I think it was this lad got killed. All I know, Hilton-Alaroy there, he got killed out of the Hong-Kong.
Boy
A little more um- this is a lot of stuff here. This is a lot of- of band stuff I got there. There's three young lads that learned to play it here.
Boy
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And so the- there was the two young lads and- and they had no children, they had no children for thirteen years. And then the first child was born dead so I guess they were happy to see me
Boy
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And sometimes ah, people will call other people of the same age, be it young or old ah a lad. And they don't mean anything other than it's a- a person, the son of a family. "He's a nice lad." And he could be-
Boy
And sometimes ah, people will call other people of the same age, be it young or old ah a lad. And they don't mean anything other than it's a- a person, the son of a family. "He's a nice lad." And he could be...
Boy
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He seen it happen. He come around the corner, he seen- he see the deer topple over, he seen the young lads ahead of him. Young lads stop, deer's just keeled over dead, arrow sticking out of it.
Boy
Oh yes. So she nails a deer with her car and you-know Dariah, not much bigger than you, height wise and reasonable good-looking girl and-everything. Couple of young lads come along behind her. S-- you-know they- I–don't-know, I-think it was dead.
Boy
This is Haliburton county. The lads- young and this is Lue, the guy I work for...
Boy
Young lads look at the deer, chuck in the back of the truck...
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