cadie

1. (historical) Alternative spelling of caddie (“a gentleman who joined the military without a commission as a career; a young man; a person engaged to run errands such as carrying goods and messages; specifically, a member of an organized group of such persons working in large Scottish towns in the early 18th century”).Examples: "But gie him't het, my hearty cocks! / E'en cowe the cadie!"; "A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?""; "There would be a prosperity such as might seem fabulous, a prosperity of which every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie, would partake."alt-ofalternativehistorical