male child vs laddie

laddie vs male child

male child and laddie both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
male child	Yes	No	No	No
laddie	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, laddie is a hyponym of male child; that is, laddie is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than male child:

male child: a youthful male person
laddie: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

Other hyponyms of male child include altar boy, ball boy, bat boy, cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy, catamite, farm boy, Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy, ploughboy, plowboy, schoolboy, Scout, shop boy.

male child (noun)	laddie (noun)
a youthful male person	a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

Difference between male child and laddie

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