cad

Meaning

  1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
  2. A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
  3. (obsolete,slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.

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22k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kæd/
Etymology

Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).

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