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lordkin

lordkin noun: a little, or unimportant, lord.

Noun

lordkin (plural lordkins)

  1. A little, or unimportant, lord.
    • Our poor little pauper just mentioned is dosed with Daffy's Elixir , and somehow survives the drug. Princekin or lordkin from his earliest days has nurses , dependants , governesses , little friends , schoolfellows , schoolmasters[…]1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC

Forms of lordkin

plurallordkins

Origin of lordkin

From lord + -kin.

Questions about lordkin

What does lordkin mean?
Lordkin means a little, or unimportant, lord.
What part of speech is lordkin?
Lordkin is a noun.
What is the plural of lordkin?
The plural of lordkin is lordkins.

Words near lordkin in the dictionary

  1. lording over
  2. lordings
  3. Lordis
  4. lordish
  5. lordishly
  6. lordkin
  7. lordkins
  8. lordless
  9. lordlessness
  10. lordlet
  11. lordlets

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