noun Originally, a box containing a catty of tea for exportation; hence, any small package of tea less than a chest or half-chest.
noun A box for keeping tea when in use. Tea-caddies contain commonly one, two, or more canisters made of metal.
noun Hence Any jar or canister for holding tea.
noun A tin can with a lid, for holding water, etc.
noun In the tobacco trade, a box 6 to 8 inches square, holding from 10 to 20 pounds.
noun A ghost; a bugbear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in, also called tea caddy.
noun a container to hold objects when not in use.
noun (Computers) a container to hold a compact disk, used in some types of compact disk devices, which is inserted into the CD player during playing, or in the case of recordable CD-ROMS, during recording. It is approximately square and thin, slightly larger than the compact disk. However, many CD players have a drawer for the compact disk, requiring no caddy.
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noun golf One hired to assistanother in playing the game of golf.
verb intransitive, golf To serve as a caddy, carrying golfclubs etc.
noun A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player
noun a can for storing tea
Etymologies
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From Scots caddie, from the French cadet.
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From Malay kati.
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Anyone checked the bottom 100, whos your caddy is no. 1 stupid niggas making fun of Caddyshack
Carolina and Virginia, and we are informed that the Secretary would send the small chest, called a caddy, containing about 3,000 dollars 'worth of gold, in lumps and scales, to the mint, to be melted into coins and bars.
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