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Tad

//tæd// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given name Thaddeus or Thaddaeus.
  2. 2
    Tadcaster. UK, colloquial

    "There's a new pub opening in Tad next week."

Noun
  1. 1
    A small amount; a little bit. informal

    "Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?"

  2. 2
    Initialism of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    a slight amount or degree of difference wordnet
  4. 4
    A street boy; an urchin. US, dated, slang
  5. 5
    Initialism of transboundary animal disease. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of TA form-of, participle, past

Etymology

1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.

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