Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A boy, a fellow: a general term of slight contempt applied originally to various classes of persons of a low grade. An errand-boy; a messenger.
- n. A loafer; a hanger-on about inn-yards.
- n. A passenger taken up surreptitiously by a stage-coach driver for his own perquisite.
- n. The conductor of an omnibus.
- n. A mean, vulgar, ill-bred fellow of whatever social rank: a term of great contempt.
- n. A young fellow of the town or vicinage who hangs about a college or university and does chance services for the collegians.
- n. A name in Queensland for the cicada.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
- n. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, a seducer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. engraving A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
- n. Cant A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who is morally reprehensible
- n. software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing
Etymologies
- Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet ("chief, captain"), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput ("head"). (Wiktionary)
- Short for caddie. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mr. TREE, as the titled cad, _Lord Illingworth_, is perfect in make-up and manner.”
“Nobody can say that the abominable misconduct of Maulincour -- who is a hopeless "cad" -- is too much punished, though an Englishman may think that Dr. Johnson's receipt of three or four footmen with cudgels, applied repeatedly and unsparingly, would have been better than elaborately prepared accidents and duels, which were too honorable for”
“I do believe, Ralph, that's the very boy you called a cad when you first went to school. ”
“CAFFERTY: OK, you claim a cad is a better date than a normal guy.”
“(11Jan08), and also shows the prince calling another cad et a "raghead" - an offensive term for an Arab.”
“There are three main thin-film technologies in production -- amorphous silicon; cadmium-telluride, known as cad tel; and copper indium gallium selenide, known as CIGS.”
“I want to write a program in VB. net that should call cad environment to draw a 2d sketch.”
“WASHINGTON - Pretty much by definition, a man who can be described as a cad is not a wholly admirable human being.”
“-- Pretty much by definition, a man who can be described as a cad is not a wholly admirable human being.”
“Weatherbee could not have defined "cad" for his life; but it satisfied its purpose, which after all seems the main point in life.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cad’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 135 more...
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Dirty Deeds, Acts & Villainous Arcana
Villains, evildoers, and the wonderful words to describe them.
putsch, internecine, galère, stygian, infernal, opprobrium, anathema, bruit, scurrility, mulct, misanthropic, invective and 102 more...
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Jesse's random
bathos, dragoman, tessellated, escutcheon, eikon, mondaine, basilisk, ciborium, rubric, machicolation, jet, defalcation and 198 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, slubberdegullion, bastard, hooligan, boor, churl, thug, cad, ne'er-do-well, miscreant, minx and 85 more...
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People are Scum
words that one may enjoy using to describe other people or their actions
degenerate, reprobate, scapegrace, capricious, sycophant, arbitrary, infernal, abominable, iniquitous, nefarious, philistine, sadistic and 39 more...
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Always heard but never QUITE knew
crass, sublimate, mien, cagey, expectoration, inexorable, vacillation, singular, interpolation, iconoclastic, belie, solipsist and 17 more...
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Rogue
Terms describing roguish persons.
hellcat, she-devil, depraved, blackguard, rapscallion, knave, rascal, blasphemer, heretic, sinner, damnable, ne'er-do-well and 8 more...
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Vocab_TC60Q_txtbook
most vocab in the textbook Page till end chapter 2.
moribund, unflagging, defunct, sated, inveigling, opining, needling, fulminating, lauding, vassals, serfs, minions and 86 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Unsavoury Types
insults, epithets, etc.
drotchel, drossel, drazel, flutch, lollard, scobberlotcher, ragabash, faineant, cad, buffoon, martinet, tosspot and 116 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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