caddies
caddies is the plural of caddie.
caddies is the plural of caddy.
caddies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of caddy.
caddies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of caddie.
Meaning of caddie
Noun
caddie (plural caddies)
- Synonym of cadet (“a gentleman (often a younger son from a noble family) who joined the military without a commission as a career”).
- Synonyms:
- cadet
- 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, Robert Burns, “The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, to the Right Honorable and Honorable, the Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume...
- 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.
- 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?"1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.]...
- A person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice.
- 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.1897 (date written), Paul T. B. Ward, quotee, “19th Hole: The Readers Take Over”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 19, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., published 22 July 1963, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60
Meaning of caddy
Noun
caddy (plural caddies)
- A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
- The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in...2019, Nancy E. Davis, “Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home”, in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Show), page 107
- A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
- A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies.1990, Washingtonian, volume 25, Washington, D.C.: Washington Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121
- A small lidded bin for food waste.
- A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
- Place the disc in the DVD caddy.
- A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.
Noun capitalized: Caddies
Caddies
- plural of Caddy
Phrases with caddies
Questions about caddies
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- Caddies is the plural of caddie.
- What part of speech is caddies?
- Caddies is a noun.
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