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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

/ æ /

noun

  1. a small boy; lad

  2. a small bit or piece

  3. 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, tad for def. 1; 1935–40, tad for def. 2; perhaps shortening of tadpole
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tad1

C20: short for tadpole
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But this year, something feels just a tad bit different.

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If this all sounds a tad serious, “Stick” really isn’t.

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McPherson takes liberties, setting the play in 1900 central Ukraine and, perhaps more consequently, elucidating the psychology where Chekhov was a tad more ambiguous.

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Schulz riffing on his infant resembling a Puerto Rican may be a tad more defensible than Hinchcliffe’s bigotry nuke at Madison Square Garden.

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Blake: I thought it was interesting, and maybe a tad implausible, that word of Tanya’s death hadn’t gotten back to Belinda, either through news reports or the White Lotus grapevine.

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