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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To coax; spoil.
  2. To attend officiously.
  3. To tease; scold; annoy.
  4. n. A dispute; contention; confusion; noise.

Examples

  • “You ben't to put yourself in a caddle, Mrs. Dale, an 'I know what I be talkin' of.”

    The Devil's Garden

  • “This morning, when I arrived downstairs, the kitchen was all of a caddle.”

    A Poor Man's House

  • “But how's us ever to get out of the caddle where we be?”

    Six Plays

  • “And Robert, you and me will have a drink after all this caddle.”

    Six Plays

  • “There could never come a worser caddle into a man's days nor matrimony, I count.”

    Six Plays

  • “If ye'd ha 'married, d'ye see, maister," he said, "this caddle couldn't have happened to us.”

    The Woodlanders

  • “Here's a pretty caddle about giving a boy's due!" said the innkeeper.”

    Jan of the Windmill

  • “Mrs. Lake could sometimes remember things when she got into bed, but on this occasion her pillow did not assist her; and the windmiller snubbed her for making "such a caddle" about a woman's face she might have seen anywhere or nowhere, for that matter; so she got no help from him.”

    Jan of the Windmill

  • “garden i am back to my home, no sleep, in jet lag. early morning, i went to the garden and think that the garden is like me, need to be caddle.”

    garden

  • “Ther ain't no credit in gettin 'well. Ther' wur no sich a caddle about sick folk when I wur a bwoy. ”

    Tom Brown at Oxford

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