• Cad

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /kæd/
    • Rhymes: -æd

    Origin

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

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    Noun

    cad

    (plural cads)
    1. A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
    2. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
      • 1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 5, The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite....Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

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