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单词 caddie
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caddiecadien.

Brit. /ˈkadi/, U.S. /ˈkædi/
Forms: Also 1600s caudie, 1700s cadie, cawdie, cady, caddee, 1700s–1800s caddy.
Etymology: < French cadet: see cadet n.1 and cadee n.
1. = cadee n., cadet n.1 2. Also attributive. Scottish.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > gentleman cadet
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cadet1651
cadeea1689
1634–46 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 462 Ane young gentleman latelie come from France, pransing..with his short skarlet cloake and his long caudie rapier.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 53 Commissions are dear Yet I'll buy him one this year; For he shall serve no longer a cadie.
a1774 R. Fergusson in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (1776) II. 170 There was Wattie the muirland laddie..With sword by his side like a cadie.
2.
a. A lad or man who waits about on the lookout for chance employment as a messenger, errand-boy, errand-porter, chair-man, odd-job-man, etc.; spec. a member of a corps of commissionaires in Edinburgh in the 18th cent. (See also quot. 1883.) Scottish.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun]
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1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. ii. 26 The Cawdys, a very useful Black-Guard, who attend..publick Places to go of Errands; and though they are Wretches, that in Rags lye upon the Stairs, and in the Streets at Night, yet are they often considerably trusted... This Corps has a kind of Captain..presiding over them, whom they call the Constable of the Cawdys.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 174 A cadie, wi' his lanthron.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 222 A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled.
1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 104 A caddy came with a large parcel to Mrs. Logan's house.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 209 Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie.
1883 Wesleyan Mag. 546 The Caddies—sturdy women with creels on their backs who acted as porters—struggled for the customer.
b. A golf-player's attendant who carries his clubs (generally a boy or lad). Also attributive, as caddie-car, caddie-cart.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > caddy
fore-caddie1792
caddie1857
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > cart > for clubs
golf buggy1930
golf cart1951
caddie-car1961
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 696/2.
1864 Bookseller 31 Oct. 662 Twenty golfers, with their attendant caddies scattered over the link.
1883 Standard 16 Nov. 5/2 The ‘caddy’ who carries the clubs probably possesses theoretical knowledge.
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 202/2 Caddie-Car, a light two-wheeled rack for holding golf-clubs, drawn by the golfer himself.
1962 Punch 21 Nov. 747/1 A moment's weakness, and you'll be hiring a caddy and a caddy-cart.
3. Young fellow, lad. (ludicrous or familiar.) Scottish.
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1786 R. Burns Poems 35 Gie him't het, my hearty cocks! E'en cowe the cadie [sc. Charles James Fox]!
1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 186 (Jam.) A' ye canty cheerie caddies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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