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Caddy   /kˈædi/   Listen
noun
Caddie  n.  (Written also caddy, cadie, cady, and cawdy)  
1.
A cadet. (Obs. Scot.)
2.
A lad; young fellow. (Scot.)
3.
One who does errands or other odd jobs. (Scot.)
4.
An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc.


Caddy  n.  (pl. caddies)  
1.
A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in, also called tea caddy.
2.
A container to hold objects when not in use.
3.
(Computers) A container to hold a compact disk, used in some types of compact disk devices, which is inserted into the CD player during playing, or in the case of recordable CD-ROMS, during recording. It is approximately square and thin, slightly larger than the compact disk. However, many CD players have a drawer for the compact disk, requiring no caddy.





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"Caddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... protected by a canvas cover securely strapped and arranged so that when he wants to retire he need only unbuckle the straps and unroll the blankets on the bunk in the railway carriage. He also has a "tiffin basket," with a tea pot, an alcohol lamp, a tea caddy, plates and cups of granite ware, spoons, knives and forks, a box of sugar, a tin of jam, a tin of biscuits or crackers, and other concomitants for his interior department in case of an emergency; and, never having had anything better, he ...
— Modern India • William Eleroy Curtis
... habit of traveling Englishmen, they had brought with them everything portable they owned. Each one had four or five large handbags, and a carryall, and a hat box, and his tea-caddy, and his plaid blanket done up in a shawlstrap, and his framed picture of the Death of Nelson—and all the rest of it; and they piled those things in the luggage racks until both the racks were chock-full; so the rest of us had to hold our baggage in ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... water, and ladled the tea out of a little silver caddy, and dipped the bottom of each cup in water before it was filled to prevent slippings on the saucer. She had a kettle-holder worked in cross-stitch—red wool roses on a black wool background—and ...
— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... not to say of expense, his future mother-in law would have weighted them more by accompanying their steps than by giving her hostess, in the interest of the tendency they considered that they never mentioned, equivalent pledges as to the tea- caddy and the jam-pot. These were the questions—these indeed the familiar commodities—that he had now to put into the scales; and his betrothed had in consequence, during her holiday, the odd and yet pleasant and almost ...
— In the Cage • Henry James
... Septr. 1806. had all our skins &c suned and stored away in a storeroom of Mr. Caddy Choteau, payed some visits of form, to the gentlemen of St. Louis, in the ...
— Lewis and Clark - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark • William R. Lighton


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