caddie

or cad·dy

[ kad-ee ]

/ ˈkæd i /

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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), cad·died, cad·dy·ing.

to work as a caddie.

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Origin of caddie

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

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH caddie

caddie , caddy, catty

Words nearby caddie

cadaverous, Cadbury, CAD/CAM, caddice, caddicefly, caddie, caddie car, caddie cart, caddis, caddisfly, caddish

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How to use caddie in a sentence

The mat simulates a real fairway, while the caddie feeds one ball at a time with a simple tap of the club.
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Again, from what I understand, all the players and all the caddies will be here.
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When Hideki Matsuyama tapped in on the 18th green at the Masters on Sunday to become the first man from Japan to win a major golf championship, he stood expressionless, then walked toward his caddie so subdued that he did not even smile.
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Just preparing for the golf course, a golf course that I've never seen before, has been our biggest task, my caddie and I, and I think I did a good job today.
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Solomon Jones hopped out of the Caddie and yelled up to King.
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But a step came hurrying down the stairs, the step of a heavy body lightly carried, and Caddie Musgrave came in at a flying pace.
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Caddie opened her eyes and came to a posture more adapted to sustaining her end of the conversational burden.
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To Marshmead it seemed as if he might as well have been born dumb, but Caddie never omitted tribute to his great qualities.
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This was excusable in her, because she had only the vaguest notions of golf or of the interrelations between caddie and player.
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No one regarding him would have dreamed that he was at heart but a golf caddie or a driver of trucks for hire.
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British Dictionary definitions for caddie

caddie

caddy

/ (ˈkædɪ) /

noun plural -dies

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

verb -dies, -dying or -died

(intr) to act as a caddie

Word Origin for caddie

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

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