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Maddish vs Laddish - What's the difference?

maddish | laddish |

As adjectives the difference between maddish and laddish

is that maddish is somewhat mad while laddish is (british) like a stereotypical jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.

maddish

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Somewhat mad

    • laddish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British) Like a stereotypical jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.
  • *2003 , Linda McDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth
  • *:...versions of a laddish or protest heterosexual masculinity...
  • *2006 , Carolyn Jackson, Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure
  • *:This underachievement is linked to a laddish culture...