caddie

or cad·dy

[ kad-ee ]

/ ˈkæd i /

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.

Nearby words

Origin of caddie

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

Can be confusedcaddie caddy catty

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Examples from the Web for 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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But I wonder if Caddie would think we were thick, too, if we told him to move on?
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And whatever you do, don't forget them cellar doors, Caddie!
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Caddie opened her eyes and came to a posture more adapted to sustaining her end of the conversational burden.
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Each contestant's caddie was provided with a stick cleft at one end and pointed at the other.
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If a competitor's ball strike himself, his clubs or caddie, the penalty shall be one stroke.
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British Dictionary definitions for caddie

caddie

caddy

/ (ˈkædɪ) /

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

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."