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tad

1

[ tad ]

noun

, Informal.
  1. a small child, especially a boy.
  2. a very small amount or degree; bit:

    Please shift your chair a tad to the right. The frosting could use a tad more vanilla.



Tad

2

[ tad ]

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Thaddeus or Theodore.

tad

/ tæd /

noun

  1. a small boy; lad
  2. a small bit or piece
  3. a tad
    a little; rather

    she may be a tad short but she got a top modelling job

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tad1

1875–80, Americanism, tad fordef 1; 1935–40, Americanism, tad fordef 2; perhaps shortening of tadpole
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tad1

C20: short for tadpole
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Example Sentences

Joe Sutter is 93 now, silver-haired and moving a tad more slowly than he would like, but still pugnacious and sharp of tongue.

Onscreen, Teller is a bit like a young Vince Vaughn—gregarious, charming, and a tad suspicious.

Even so, I feel a tad guilty to be depriving him of the opportunity.

When a 16-year-old takes on that wide-eyed, touched-for-the-very-first-time role, it all comes off as a tad more…juvenile.

Because we know she was once a tad more regular, and she feels like an old friend, and we watched her become who she is today.

This reasoning displeased the dwarfs, and one of them named Tad denounced it with much indignation.

Me and his daddy was--was together when he died; and you used to sit on Wash's knee when you was a little tad.

He looked down the stairs and saw Tom and Tad Sobber near a landing, having a wordy quarrel.

More than this, he had caught Tad Sobber in a falsehood only the day before.

As they looked into the place they saw Tad Sobber reach over the counter and catch the girl clerk by her curls.

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