"tad" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /tæd/ Audio: en-us-tad.ogg [US] Forms: tads [plural]
Rhymes: -æd Etymology: 1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915. Etymology templates: {{m|en|tadpole}} tadpole Head templates: {{en-noun}} tad (plural tads)
  1. (informal) A small amount; a little bit. Tags: informal Translations (a little bit): малко количество (malko količestvo) (Bulgarian), xic [masculine] (Catalan), pèl [masculine] (Catalan), anelse [common-gender] (Danish), beetje [neuter] (Dutch), scheutje [feminine] (Dutch), klets [Flemish, masculine] (Dutch), hiukan (Finnish), hieman (Finnish), Spürchen [neuter] (German), pöttyet [slang] (Hungarian), pindurkát [informal] (Hungarian), pilinszkát [informal] (Hungarian), po’ [masculine] (Italian), 多少 (tashou) (Japanese), tanke [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), немно́го (nemnógo) (Russian), malko (Serbo-Croatian), malenkost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), trošku (Slovak), trochu (Slovak), kúsok (Slovak), tanto [masculine] (Spanish), gnutta [common-gender] (Swedish), కాస్త (kāsta) (Telugu), కాస్తంత (kāstanta) (Telugu), కొద్దిగా (koddigā) (Telugu), biraz (Turkish), azıcık (Turkish), birazcık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-tad-en-noun-Nm~WwFhG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of 'a little bit': 99 1
  2. (US, slang, dated) A street boy; an urchin. Tags: US, dated, slang
    Sense id: en-tad-en-noun-76NAejNP Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: a tad

Inflected forms

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