caddie English · revision 1921

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈkædi/ ''(UK)''; /ˈkædi/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a Scottish form of the word [[bor|fr|cadet|t=younger son, cadet]].^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) It is related to [[cadet]].^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1995)^(AHD)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Scottish use, a cadet: a young gentleman who entered the army without a commission (1634–46).^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ By about 1730 a ''caddie'' in Scotland was a man or boy who waited about for odd jobs, such as running errands.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) Etymonline quotes a letter from Edinburgh of about that date describing the city's ragged but trusted corps of “Cawdys”.^(Etymonline) The golf sense, a player's attendant who carries the clubs, followed in the 19th century (1851 in Etymonline, 1857 in the OED and Barnhart).^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995) The verb is recorded from 1908.^(Barnhart 1995) In modern use the word also means a wheeled carrier for luggage and the like.^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1634–46 – a cadet.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * c. 1730 – an errand boy or odd-job man.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)

+ * 1851 – a golfer's attendant (Etymonline, 1857 in the OED and Barnhart).^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * 1908 – verb.^(Barnhart 1995)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A person hired to help a [[golfer]], especially by carrying the clubs.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A person who runs errands or does odd jobs.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A wheeled device for carrying things, such as luggage.^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To work as a caddie.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[forecaddie]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cadet]]

+ * [[cad]]

+ * [[caddy]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}