Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
caddie .
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Examples
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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.
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Sometimes their mother is irritated into calling them 'cawdy li'l devils.'
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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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
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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
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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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