Caddie

Quick meaning: Caddie is a noun meaning Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).

Meaning

Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).

More Meanings

1. A young man; a boy, a lad; specifically (derogatory), one regarded as of low social status; a ragamuffin.
2. (by extension, golf, also attributively) A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.
3. (intransitive, golf) Chiefly followed by for: to serve as a caddie (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2) for a golfer.
4. A person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; a commissionaire, an errand boy or errand girl, a gofer; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish cities and towns in the early 18th century.
5. Alternative spelling of caddy.

Example Sentences

But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!

We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.

There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake.

As caddy I had to carry the clubs, for there are four varieties almost everyone used, and some used more. Besides doing this, the caddy has to keep score of the number of strokes used, and watch and find each ball.

Word Forms

• caddies
• cady
• cadie
• caddy
• caddying
• caddieing
• caddied

Synonyms for caddie

Depending on context, synonyms include cadet, caddy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cart, adaptor, adapter, cocklaird, sassenach, gadgie.

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