cadie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of caddie (“a gentleman who joined the military without a commission as a career; a young man; a person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish towns in the early 18th century”).
Example Sentences
- "But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!"
- "A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?""
- "There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake."