cad
English
Etymology
Short for caddie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cad (plural cads)
- A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- (historical) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
- Charles Dickens, Omnibuses (in Sketches by Boz)
- We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.
- Charles Dickens, Omnibuses (in Sketches by Boz)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
person who stands at door
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mean fellow
See also
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cadeō, from Latin cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian cădea, cad.
Verb
cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)
- I fall.
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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *kʷid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
cad
Synonyms
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cad”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 103
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
cad
- first-person singular present indicative of cădea
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cădea
- third-person plural present indicative of cădea
Somali
Noun
cad ?
Welsh
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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From Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath).
Noun
cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Verb
cad
Mutation
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