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").
Full definition of cad
Noun
cad
(plural cads)- 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.
- 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?