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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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Yup. I can prove it to you. The young lad was home. Teeth marks are still in that gun stock.
Boy
Yup. My young lad's got a gun when we were kids. We'd take her out rabbit hunting...
Boy
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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…
Boy
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...
Boy
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.
Boy
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.
Boy
…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.
Boy
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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."
Boy
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?
Boy
Young lad used to come to us and tell us first- first prize given to the best step dancer, Jordan-Morgan.
Boy
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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?"
Boy
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.
Boy
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.
Boy
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.
Boy
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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
Boy
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.
Boy
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?
Boy
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.
Boy
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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