cadie

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English

Alternative forms

Noun

cadie (plural cadies)

  1. (dated) A Scottish errand boy, porter, or messenger.
    • Macaulay
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

cadie

  1. today, this day
    Synonym: hodie