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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) Alternative spelling of caddie (“a gentleman who joined the military without a commission as a career; a young man; a person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish towns in the early 18th century”)..
But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!
A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"
There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake.
Use cadie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cadie means (historical) Alternative spelling of caddie (“a gentleman who joined the military without a commission as a career; a young man; a person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish towns in the early 18th century”)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!
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