caddy

• caddie

• IPA^(key): /ˈkædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi
• Homophones: cattie, catty (in dialects with flapping)

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From Scots caddie, from the French cadet. Doublet of cadet, caudillo, and capitellum.

caddy (plural caddies)

1. (golf) One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.

   "Caddy, pass me my five iron."

   • March 1921, Octavus Roy Cohen, “Follow Through”, in Munsey's Magazine, page 361-371:

     Then Carter Chapman picked out his putter, stepped confidently up to the ball, sighted once along the ground, and made his stroke. The ball rolled straight as a die toward the caddy who was holding the flag, and tinkled into the cup for a birdie three!

• golf caddy

caddy (third-person singular simple present caddies, present participle caddying, simple past and past participle caddied)

1. (intransitive, golf) To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.

   I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

   • 1918, George Weston, The Apple-Tree Girl, Chapter 6:

     The next day the thirty-two qualifying players were paired off into sixteen sets of opponents. Charlotte was matched against a girl from California. After the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt. "Take it easy, miss," said the highly gratified Mr. Ogilvie, who was caddying for Charlotte. "You hold her in the hollow of your hand."

Borrowed from Malay kati, a weight.

caddy (plural caddies)

1. A lightweight wheeled cart, often used to bring home groceries.
2. A small box, can, or chest to keep things in.
   • 1990, The Washingtonian, volume 25, page 121:

     A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies.

   • 2019, Nancy E. Davis, “Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home”, in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Show), page 107:

     The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.

3. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding, securing, and transporting a removable component within a piece of equipment or machinery.

   Place the disc in the DVD caddy.

• caddy spoon
• desk caddy
• tea caddy

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “caddy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “caddie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Borrowed from English caddy. Doublet of cadet.

• IPA^(key): /ka.di/

caddy m (plural caddies or caddys)

1. (golf) caddy
   • 2016, Nora Roberts, Crime en fête.

     – […] Et puis j'ai discuté avec son caddy.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. golf cart
3. supermarket trolley
   • 2013, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Délivrance. La troisième enquête du département V.

     La seule incursion féminine dans le sous-sol ce matin-là fut celle d'Yrsa, traînant bruyamment son caddy de supermarché.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• “caddy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.