Tad
/tæd/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small amount; a little bit. informal
"Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?"
- 2 Initialism of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 3 a slight amount or degree of difference wordnet
- 4 A street boy; an urchin. US, dated, slang
- 5 Initialism of transboundary animal disease. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of TA form-of, participle, past
Proper Noun
- 1 A diminutive of the male given name Thaddeus or Thaddaeus.
- 2 Tadcaster. UK, colloquial
"There's a new pub opening in Tad next week."
Example
More examples"One day in 1906, a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dorgan went to a baseball game."
Etymology
1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.