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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



... the cover, and then opening a closet, took from it a lacquered Chinese tea-caddy and a silver urn, and proceeded ...
— Adele Dubois - A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick • Mrs. William T. Savage
... the later streets of Dockland is that beautiful lady's portrait known. Here and there it survives, part of the flotsam which has drifted through the years with grandmother's sandalwood chest, the last of the rush-bottomed chairs, and the lacquered tea-caddy. I well remember a room from which such survivals were saved when the household ship ran on a coffin, and foundered. It was a front parlour in one of the streets with an Oriental name; which, I cannot be expected to remember, for when last I was in that room I was lifted to sit on ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson
... I like to call myself his caddy. I follow him round, and hold his clues for him, till he wants one, then ...
— Vicky Van • Carolyn Wells
... house was unswept, the children dirty and always under foot, and the meals half-cooked. She would sit all day in slipshod slippers and a dress that did not meet in the back, drinking coffee and dictating to her eldest daughter Caddy (who hated Africa and all its natives) letters about coffee cultivation and the uplifting of the natives ...
— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives
... scarcely can be a more desperate blow than the loss of his landlady. It is not only that his conscience pricks him for all his narrow, plagiaristic, and even irrational suspicions about the low level of his tea caddy, or a neap tide in his brandy bottle, or any false evidence of the eyes (which ever go spying to lock up the heart), or the ears, which are also wicked organs—these memories truly are grievous to ...
— George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore


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