caddy

Meaning

Noun

1. A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
2. A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
3. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
4. A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.

Verb

Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)

Synonyms

caddie

tea caddy

canister

tea-caddy

box

📦

case

casket

chest

coffer

coop

shopping cart

🛒

shopping trolley

trolley

trunk

basket

🧺

tea canister

cage

can

carriage

cart

Hyphenated as

cad‧dy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkædi/

Etymology

An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”).