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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. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. intr to act as a caddie
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of caddie1

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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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