caddie

or cad·dy

[ kad-ee ]

noun

1. Golf. a person hired to carry a player's clubs, find the ball, etc.
2. a person who runs errands, does odd jobs, etc.
3. caddie cart.
4. any rigidly structured, wheeled device for carrying or moving around heavy objects:

   a luggage caddie.

verb (used without object)

, cad·died, cad·dy·ing.

1. to work as a caddie.

caddie

/ ˈkædɪ /

noun

1. golf an attendant who carries clubs, etc, for a player

verb

1. intr to act as a caddie

Word History and Origins

Origin of caddie¹

1625–35; earlier cadee, variant of cadet < French; cadet

Word History and Origins

Origin of caddie¹

C17 (originally: a gentleman learning the military profession by serving in the army without a commission, hence C18 (Scottish): a person looking for employment, an errand-boy): from French cadet

Example Sentences

Solomon Jones hopped out of the Caddie and yelled up to King.

From The Daily Beast

Did you hear, the Caddie Retirement Fund at the P.B.C.C was invested with Madoff and is now wiped out?

From The Daily Beast

But a step came hurrying down the stairs, the step of a heavy body lightly carried, and Caddie Musgrave came in at a flying pace.

From Project Gutenberg

Caddie opened her eyes and came to a posture more adapted to sustaining her end of the conversational burden.

From Project Gutenberg

To Marshmead it seemed as if he might as well have been born dumb, but Caddie never omitted tribute to his great qualities.

From Project Gutenberg

This was excusable in her, because she had only the vaguest notions of golf or of the interrelations between caddie and player.

From Project Gutenberg

No one regarding him would have dreamed that he was at heart but a golf caddie or a driver of trucks for hire.

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