lordkin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
lordkin (plural lordkins)
- A little lord.
- 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
- Our poor little pauper just mentioned is dosed with Daffy's Elixir , and somehow survives the drug. Princekin or lordkin from his earliest days has nurses , dependants , governesses , little friends , schoolfellows , schoolmasters […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lordkin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)