caddie

or cad·dy

[kad-ee]

noun

Golf. a person hired to carry a player's clubs, find the ball, etc.

a person who runs errands, does odd jobs, etc.

caddie cart.

any rigidly structured, wheeled device for carrying or moving around heavy objects: a luggage caddie.

verb (used without object), cad·died, cad·dy·ing.

to work as a caddie.

Origin of caddie

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

Can be confusedcaddie caddy catty

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Contemporary Examples of caddie

Solomon Jones hopped out of the Caddie and yelled up to King.
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Did you hear, the Caddie Retirement Fund at the P.B.C.C was invested with Madoff and is now wiped out?
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Historical Examples of caddie

But I wonder if Caddie would think we were thick, too, if we told him to move on?
Sonnie-Boy's People
James B. Connolly
"I ain't asked you to do what ain't right, Caddie," he asseverated.
Country Neighbors
Alice Brown
Caddie put out a hand, and fastened it upon his in an inexorable clasp.
Country Neighbors
Alice Brown
"They're afraid o' gettin' old an' they're afraid o' gettin' fleshy," Caddie announced.
Country Neighbors
Alice Brown
“I wish you wouldn't talk when I am about to drive,” he complained to a caddie.
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Walter Prichard Eaton

British Dictionary definitions for caddie

caddie

caddy

noun plural -dies

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

verb -dies, -dying or -died

(intr) to act as a caddie

Word Origin for caddie

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

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Word Origin and History for caddie

1630s, Scottish form of French cadet (see cadet). Originally "person who runs errands;" meaning of "golfer's assistant" is 1851. A letter from Edinburgh c.1730 describes the city's extensive and semi-organized "Cawdys, a very useful Black-Guard, who attend ... publick Places to go at Errands; and though they are Wretches, that in Rags lye upon the Stairs and in the Streets at Night, yet are they often considerably trusted .... This Corps has a kind of Captain ... presiding over them, whom they call the Constable of the Cawdys."