cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy
(noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
laddie (plural laddies)
(Scotland, Northumbria) A small boy.
• adelid, daidle, dialed, dilead, ladied
Source: Wiktionary
Lad"die, n.
Definition: A lad; a male sweetheart. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
