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caddying

caddying is the present participle and gerund of caddy.

caddying is the present participle and gerund of caddie.

Meaning of caddy

Verb

caddy (third-person singular simple present caddies, present participle caddying, simple past and past participle caddied)

  1. (intransitive) Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)
    • I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

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Meaning of caddie

Verb

caddie (third-person singular simple present caddies, present participle caddying or caddieing, simple past and past participle caddied)

  1. (intransitive) Chiefly followed by for: to serve as a caddie (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2) 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 (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

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Questions about caddying

What is caddying the present participle and gerund of?
Caddying is the present participle and gerund of caddy.

Words near caddying in the dictionary

  1. caddrs
  2. caddy
  3. caddy ole punch
  4. caddy spoon
  5. caddy spoons
  6. caddying
  7. caddyless
  8. caddymaster
  9. caddymasters
  10. caddywompus
  11. cade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caddying (page history and authors); caddy (page history and authors); caddie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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