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Caddy   /kˈædi/   Listen
noun
Caddie  n.  (Written also caddy, cadie, cady, and cawdy)  
1.
A cadet. (Obs. Scot.)
2.
A lad; young fellow. (Scot.)
3.
One who does errands or other odd jobs. (Scot.)
4.
An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc.


Caddy  n.  (pl. caddies)  
1.
A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in, also called tea caddy.
2.
A container to hold objects when not in use.
3.
(Computers) A container to hold a compact disk, used in some types of compact disk devices, which is inserted into the CD player during playing, or in the case of recordable CD-ROMS, during recording. It is approximately square and thin, slightly larger than the compact disk. However, many CD players have a drawer for the compact disk, requiring no caddy.





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"Caddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... for offering a piece of advice which ought to be superfluous and is not. I have sometimes found ladies most culpably careless in the matter of divots. It is a fundamental rule that, if in playing you cut out a piece of turf, you or your caddy should replace it. Never, under any circumstances, neglect this rule or allow your caddy to neglect it. Nobody who consistently neglects this rule ought to be ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... shoved at her plate, she saw him, saw the tea-caddy, saw his rooms and saw too, as she left them, the girl to whom he was engaged. In the memory of that she lingered ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus
... 'ave I made tea an' forgot to put the tea in!" she exclaimed, snatching it from his hand. "Don't you go an' tell Dave and Mick, Murty, or I'll never hear the end of it. Lucky there's plenty of hot water." She emptied the teapot swiftly, and refilled it, this time with due regard to the tea-caddy. ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... carpet in the drawing-room, with a border of flooring all the way round; a few stained chairs and a pembroke table. A pink shell was displayed on each of the little sideboards, which, with the addition of a tea-tray and caddy, a few more shells on the mantelpiece, and three peacock's feathers tastefully arranged above them, completed the decorative ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... worded telegraphic message to Mrs. Oliver Hilditch, 10 b, Hill Street, regretting his inability to dine that night, and each time he destroyed it. He carried the first message around Richmond golf course with him, intending to dispatch his caddy with it immediately on the conclusion of the round. The fresh air, however, and the concentration required by the game, seemed to dispel the nervous apprehensions with which he had anticipated his visit, and over an aperitif in the club bar he tore the telegram into small pieces ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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