tad
noun
a small child, especially a boy.
tads
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pluralof tad.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For my tads, the educational materials include a 2-ft. sign joyously inscribed MOMMY.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day Estes, Robert and some other tads were swimming in the nearby Tellico River.
From Time Magazine Archive
That clocking would have rated Weissmuller nothing but a spectator's seat at last week's National A.A.U. championships in Lincoln, Neb., where tads the size of his beloved Cheetah smashed five world and eleven meet records.
From Time Magazine Archive
You git my idy, do you?—Little tads, you understand— Jest a-wishin' thue and thue you that you on'y wuz a man.—
From Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley
While they are still tiny tads, the boys of St. John's and the outposts practise leaping across rain-barrels and mud-puddles.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Waldo
