cadie

• “-- Jamieson derives this word, or rather its Scotch diminutive, "cadie," from the French, _cadet_.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851

• “In Algonquian languages, “cadie” is a suffix that means place, in combinations such as Tracadie, or Shubenacadie.”

  Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

• “‘Atweel, I am a simple body, that’s true, hinny, but I am no come to steal ony o’ his skeel for naething, ’ said the farmer in his honest pride, and strutted away downstairs, followed by Mannering and the cadie.”

  Chapter XXXVI

• “On all the vast riches that would be poured into Scotland a toll should be paid which would add to her capital; and a fabulous prosperity would be shared by every Scotchman from the peer to the cadie.”

  An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America

• “A cadie in Scotland was a carrier of a sedan-chair.”

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

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

  The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5

• “When they arrived, William sent a cadie to give notice to Colonel Gordon that he was arrived in town; but was detained upon business with a stranger, to whom he would be happy to introduce him, as he was an acquaintance of his father's, and had seen him within the last few years.”

  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17

• “Macfin the cadie, he'll be there about this time, and tell him I wish to speak to him. ”

  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete

• “Atweel, I am a simple body, that's true, hinny, but I am no come to steal ony o' his skeel for naething, 'said the farmer in his honest pride, and strutted away downstairs, followed by Mannering and the cadie.”

  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete

• “Here you, sir (to the waiter), go to Luckie Finlayson's in the Cowgate for Miles Macfin the cadie, he'll be there about this time, and tell him I wish to speak to him. ”

  Guy Mannering — Complete

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