caddie

[kad-ee] /ˈkæd i/

noun

Golf. a person hired to carry a player's clubs, find the ball, etc.

a person who runs errands, does odd jobs, etc.

caddie cart.

any rigidly structured, wheeled device for carrying or moving around heavy objects:

a luggage caddie.

verb (used without object), caddied, caddying.

to work as a caddie.

Also, caddy.

Origin

1625-35; earlier cadee, variant of cadet < French; see cadet

Can be confused

caddie, caddy, catty.

Examples from the web for caddie

He played a lot of golf with me over the years, he knows my style of play, he's a good caddie.
Writer briefly recalls working as a caddie when he was younger.
He be- came a pro when he was twenty, with the same domestic purpose he had when he became a caddie.
When a player is out on the course, his caddie is his only crutch.
When playing alone, he had a captive audience in his caddie.

British Dictionary definitions for caddie

caddie

/ˈkædɪ/

noun (pl) -dies

(golf) an attendant who carries clubs, etc, for a player

verb -dies, -dying, -died

(intransitive) to act as a caddie

Word Origin

C17 (originally: a gentleman learning the military profession by serving in the army without a commission, hence C18 (Scottish): a person looking for employment, an errand-boy): from French cadet

Word Origin and History for caddie

1630s, Scottish form of French cadet (see cadet). Originally "person who runs errands;" meaning of "golfer's assistant" is 1851. A letter from Edinburgh c.1730 describes the city's extensive and semi-organized "Cawdys, a very useful Black-Guard, who attend ... publick Places to go at 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."

Slang definitions & phrases for caddie

Cad

noun

A Cadillac car: And we'll rent a black Caddy (1920s+)