ladkin

English

Etymology

From lad +‎ -kin.

Noun

ladkin (plural ladkins)

1. (archaic) A little lad.
   • 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 3, stanza 31, page 44:

     Tharrhon that young ladkin hight, / He prayed this aged Sire for to reveal / What way this Dragons poyſonous deſpight, / And ſtrong Pantheothens inwalling might, / We may eſcape.

References

• “ladkin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.