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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 tad
    a little; rather

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

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51Թ 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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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tad1

C20: short for tadpole
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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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When Pacino won for “Scent,” he was a tad over 50.

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Even the most exhilarating of wins can be made to feel a tad turgid because of the ways of modern professional golf.

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