caddie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Scots caddie (“military cadet; young man; ragamuffin; person engaged to run errands; person hired to assist a golfer”), from French cadet (“army cadet; younger sibling”), from capdet (“captain; chief”) (Gascony, archaic), from Late Latin capitettum, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“head”). Doublet of cadel, cadet, capital, capitellum, and caudillo.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: caddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cady
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cadie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cadie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: caddy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cadie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: caddy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: caddies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caddying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caddieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caddied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caddied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: caddy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
also
attributive
obsolete
gloss: A young man; a boy, a lad; specifically (derogatory), one regarded as of low social status; a ragamuffin.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
archaic
broadly
examples: But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
broadly
historical
examples: 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.
gloss: A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
broadly
examples: 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.
Then Carter Chapman picked out his putter, stepped confidently up to the ball, sighted once along the ground, and made his stroke. The ball rolled straight as a die toward the caddy who was holding the flag, and tinkled into the cup for a birdie three!
gloss: Chiefly followed by for: to serve as a caddie (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2) for a golfer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.
The next day the thirty-two qualifying players were paired off into sixteen sets of opponents. Charlotte was matched against a girl from California. After the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt. "Take it easy, miss," said the highly gratified Mr. Ogilvie, who was caddying for Charlotte. "You hold her in the hollow of your hand."
The scheme had been, if I remember, that after lunch I should go off and caddy for Honoria on a shopping tour down Regent Street; but when she got up and started collecting me and the rest of her things, Aunt Agatha stopped her.
Derived words: caddieless
caddielike
caddiemaster
forecaddie
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