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

caddy

[ kad-ee ]

/ ˈkæd i /

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

caddie.

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Examples from the Web for caddied

Well, I oughter, considerin' the times I've caddied for yer!
Mr. Punch's Golf Stories|Various
But he had cannied and caddied in the wrong way, pecuniarily.
My Life|Josiah Flynt
He caddied that summer only for golfers of the better sort, and for Sharon Whipple, choosing his employ with nice discrimination.
The Wrong Twin|Harry Leon Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for caddied

caddy

/ (ˈkædɪ) /

noun plural -dies

mainly British a small container, esp for tea

Word Origin for caddy

C18: from Malay kati; see catty ²

caddy

/ (ˈkædɪ) /

noun, verb plural -dies or -dies, -dying or -died

a variant spelling of 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 caddied

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."

caddy

"small box for tea," 1792, from Malay kati a weight equivalent to about a pound and a third (in English from 1590s as catty), adopted as a standard mid-18c. by British companies in the East Indies. Apparently the word for a measure of tea was transferred to the chest it was carried in.