cadie
English
Alternative forms
Noun
cadie (plural cadies)
- (dated) A Scottish errand boy, porter, or messenger.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 24, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cadie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Ido
Etymology
Derived from ca- + dio + -e.
Pronunciation
Adverb
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