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cadism

cadism is the alternative form of caddism.

Meaning of caddism

Noun

caddism (uncountable)

  1. caddish behaviour
    • A great deal of caddism is, however, perpetrated by those who profess to have the greatest horror of it—the upper classes—a fact which goes far to prove that it is impossible to fairly ascribe a distinctive feature to any grade of society.1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Questions about cadism

What is cadism the alternative form of?
Cadism is the alternative form of caddism.

Words near cadism in the dictionary

  1. cadinol
  2. cadinols
  3. cadiomyocyte
  4. cadis
  5. Cadishead
  6. cadism
  7. Cadix
  8. Cadiz
  9. cadjan
  10. cadjang
  11. cadjangs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cadism (page history and authors); caddism (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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