A caddie is the person who carries a golfer's clubs and advises them. Hire a caddie, the caddie read the green, work as a caddie.
The advice is the valuable half: a good caddie knows the course, judges the wind and talks the player out of the wrong club. Many professionals keep the same one for years. The word also spells caddy, which is unrelated to a tea caddy.
1nouncaddieThe person who carries a golfer's clubs and advises them.
“The golfer's caddie carried his heavy bag of clubs all the way round the course.”
caddie is a person.
Scots caddie meant an errand boy, from French cadet, a younger son. Golf gave it the modern sense.
Proto-Indo-European
*kap-
Latin
capitettum
French
cadet — army cadet; younger sibling
Scots
caddie — military cadet; young man; ragamuffin; person engaged to run errands; person hired to assist a golfer
English, today
caddie
Built from
The noun is borrowed from Scots caddie (“military cadet; young man; ragamuffin; person engaged to run errands; person hired to assist a golfer”), from French cadet (“army cadet; younger sibling”), from capdet (“captain; chief”) Gascony, from Latin capitettum, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kap- (“head”). a doublet of cadel and cadet and capital and capitellum and caudillo. The verb is derived from the noun.
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