Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
caddie . - noun Same as
caddis . - noun A ghost; a bugbear.
- noun Originally, a box containing a catty of tea for exportation; hence, any small package of tea less than a chest or half-chest.
- noun A box for keeping tea when in use. Tea-caddies contain commonly one, two, or more canisters made of metal.
- noun Hence Any jar or canister for holding tea.
- noun A tin can with a lid, for holding water, etc.
- noun In the tobacco trade, a box 6 to 8 inches square, holding from 10 to 20 pounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in, also called
tea caddy . - noun a container to hold objects when not in use.
- noun (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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun golf One
hired toassist another inplaying thegame ofgolf . - verb intransitive, golf To
serve as a caddy, carryinggolf clubs etc. - noun A small
box , can, orchest to keeptea in.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player
- noun a can for storing tea
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyone checked the bottom 100, whos your caddy is no. 1 stupid niggas making fun of Caddyshack
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Carolina and Virginia, and we are informed that the Secretary would send the small chest, called a caddy, containing about 3,000 dollars 'worth of gold, in lumps and scales, to the mint, to be melted into coins and bars.
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
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If you're the kind of golfer who doesn't know what to expect from a ball lying below your feet and on a downward slope, the caddy could be a godsend.
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This tub caddy, which is finished with water-resistant tung oil, is available from Etsy seller PegandAwl.
Apartment Therapy Main Kyle Freeman 2010
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Ignoring the unsuprising high initial price for the SSD alone i think that $100 extra for some cables and a caddy is a little excessive.
techPowerUp! 2010
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The caddy is the size of a 3.5 "drive, in which you install a 2.5" SSD.
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And a caddy is a must for staying organized and un-cluttered underneath your kitchen sink.
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Scenario A: Spend $50,000 on a "caddy", $25,000 for your pinky, and the balance on a "pound of blow".
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I would want to see these ruthless people go out and see, like, all of this kind of caddy energy and people duking it out for money.
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It looked like he jumped, but I'm on a kind of caddy corner angle, and I couldn't take my eyes off of him.
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