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[syn: tad, shade]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tad
    n 1: a slight amount or degree of difference; "a tad too
         expensive"; "not a tad of difference"; "the new model is a
         shade better than the old one" [syn: tad, shade]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "tad":
   bairn, boy, cherub, child, chit, darling, innocent, kid, kitten,
   lad, laddie, lamb, lambkin, little bugger, little fellow,
   little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot,
   mite, nipper, offspring, peewee, shaver, son, stripling, tot,
   wee tot