lordkin
English
Etymology
Noun
lordkin (plural lordkins)
- A little, or unimportant, lord.
- 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:
- 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 […]
References
- “lordkin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.