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▪ I. cady local.|ˈkeɪdɪ| Also cadey, -i(e). [Origin unknown.] A hat or cap.
1846Spirit of Times 6 June 170/2, I may be able to discover my lost ‘Cady’. 1869N. & Q. III. 406 In Lancashire..a straw hat [is vulgarly called] a cady or straw cady. 1887Walford's Antiquarian Mag. XI. 251 Cadey found its way into a music-hall song some years ago. The chorus was something like this:—..Sixpence I gave for my cadey, A penny I gave for my stick. 1887Jamieson's Scot. Dict. Suppl., Cadie..2. A boy's cap; generally applied to a glengary. 1898J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 220 Wot with 'is white cadi cocked a-outside, ter show orf 'is fringe. 1909Daily Chron. 8 Dec. 6/7 The British navvy is never prouder than when he has, stuck in the ribbon of his best ‘cady’, a spray of the fateful [peacocks'] feathers. 1959Times 28 Sept. 11/4 Isn't it time we relieved our modern rozzer of his incongruous cady? ▪ II. cady var. of cadi, caddie. |