laddock
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From lad + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ædək
Noun[edit]
laddock (plural laddocks)
- (rare, chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A little lad; laddie
- 1925, George Ratcliffe Woodward, Domestica:
- Thereon he left the spinster, blest With guineas, birth and paddocks; For why him thought the counsel best Propounded by the laddocks.