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.

  1. 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.

Origin of caddie

1
1625–35; earlier cadee, variant of cadet<French; see cadet

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How to use caddie in a sentence

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

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

    I Survived Hurricane Bernie | Annette Tapert | December 17, 2008 | 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.

    Country Neighbors | Alice Brown
  • caddie opened her eyes and came to a posture more adapted to sustaining her end of the conversational burden.

    Country Neighbors | Alice Brown
  • To Marshmead it seemed as if he might as well have been born dumb, but caddie never omitted tribute to his great qualities.

    Country Neighbors | Alice Brown
  • This was excusable in her, because she had only the vaguest notions of golf or of the interrelations between caddie and player.

    The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
  • No one regarding him would have dreamed that he was at heart but a golf caddie or a driver of trucks for hire.

    The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for caddie

caddie

caddy

/ (ˈkædɪ) /


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

verb-dies, -dying or -died
  1. (intr) to act as a caddie

Origin of caddie

1
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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