Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of caddie.

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Examples

  • Fortunately, in the height of his whimsical perplexity, he met the cawdy or porter who had carried his trunk, and who now served him as a guide.

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • Sometimes their mother is irritated into calling them 'cawdy li'l devils.'

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

  • Fortunately, in the height of his whimsical perplexity, he met the cawdy or porter who had carried his trunk, and who now served him as a guide.

    Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849

  • Fortunately, in the height of his whimsical perplexity, he met the cawdy or porter who had carried his trunk, and who now served him as a guide.

    Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821

  • Yu'd eat an eat till yu busted, I believe; an yu'm that cawdy [finical] over what yu has gie'd 'ee .... "

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

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