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

The mat simulates a real fairway, while the caddie feeds one ball at a time with a simple tap of the club.

From Popular-Science

Again, from what I understand, all the players and all the caddies will be here.

From Washington Post

We reserved caddies again the next morning for playing Pinehurst No.

From Washington Post

When Hideki Matsuyama tapped in on the 18th green at the Masters on Sunday to become the first man from Japan to win a major golf championship, he stood expressionless, then walked toward his caddie so subdued that he did not even smile.

From Washington Post

Just preparing for the golf course, a golf course that I've never seen before, has been our biggest task, my caddie and I, and I think I did a good job today.

From Washington Post

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.

From Project Gutenberg