Lads vs Sads - What's the difference?
lads | sads |
(Northern England, Geordie, Ireland) A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads .
* 1998 , Tom Stoppard. The Real Inspector Hound
* 2000 , Marie Jones. Stones In His Pockets
(only with definite article) Sadness or melancholy
* {{quote-book, year=1996, author=David C. Treadway, title=Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=jQVHAAAAMAAJ, page=94
, passage=Lauris also tells the story of her putting some of her M&Ms into a bottle and calling them "Happiness Pills," which she sweetly offered when Martha had an episode of the Sads ."}}
* {{quote-book, year=2009, author=Leanne Rowe et al., title=I Just Want You To Be Happy, page=9, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dyrQlcMQcSIC&pg=PA9
, passage=When parents start to feel sad vibes coming through most of the time and think, 'I don't know you any more', there's likely to be more going on than an ordinary bout of the sads .}}
As nouns the difference between lads and sads
is that lads is while sads is .lads
English
Noun
(head)- Me and the lads have had a meeting in the bar and decided it's first-class family entertainment.
- I loved saying lads' . . . like I was a comrade . . . like I was one of them ... me and the '''lads''' . . . alright ' lads , eh ... Italy, no problem .