cadie

English

Noun

cadie (plural cadies)

1. (historical) Alternative spelling of caddie (“a gentleman who joined the military without a commission as a career; a young man; a person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish towns in the early 18th century”)
   • John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: James M‘Kie, 1867, →OCLC, page 35:

     But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!]

   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series,  (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 222:

     A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"

   • 1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIV, in Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), editor, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume V, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 209:

     There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake.

References

• “cadie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• CEDIA

Ido

Etymology

Derived from ca- +‎ dio +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡saˈdi.e/

Adverb

cadie

1. today, this day

   Synonym: hodie