Sekirov Dictionary

caddie

/ˈkædi/

noun 4
verb 1
forms 4

noun4

[before a noun] A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.
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(Scotland, historical) 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.
- There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake. — 1861
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(Scotland, no longer used) A young man; a boy, a lad; specifically (derogatory), one regarded as of low social status; a ragamuffin.
- But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie! — 1786
[before a noun] (Scotland, no longer used) Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).

verb1

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Chiefly followed by for: to serve as a caddie for a golfer.
- We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole. — 1897

forms

caddied · caddieing · caddying · caddies

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