1779 10 And wha think ye had they got then But a wie poor German Lairdie.
1890 M. Oliphant I. ix. 148 Douglas was Douglas when the Duke's first forbear was but a paidling lairdie with not a dozen men to his name.
2000 17 Dec. (Seven Days section) 1/1 The estate's tenants referred to him as the ‘wee lairdie’.