different between cad vs dudette

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

cad (plural cads)

1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.

   Synonyms: villain, dog
2. (archaic) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
   • c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)

     We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.

3. (Britain, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.

Derived terms

• caddish

Translations

See also

• no way to treat a lady

Anagrams

• ACD, ADC, CDA, D.Ac., DAC, DAc, DAc., DCA

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cadu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cade?, from Latin cad?. Compare Daco-Romanian c?dea, cad.

Verb

cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)

1. I fall.

Related terms

• cãdeari/cãdeare
• cãderi
• cãdzut
• cãdzui
• scad

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *k?id, from Proto-Indo-European *k?id, compare *k?is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad??/

Pronoun

cad

1. (interrogative) what
2. (Munster) (interrogative) where

Synonyms

• céard
• cad é
• caidé

Derived terms

• cad chuige (“why”)
• cad ina thaobh (“why”)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “cad” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 103.
• "cad" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad/
• Rhymes: -ad

Verb

cad

1. first-person singular present indicative of c?dea
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of c?dea
3. third-person plural present indicative of c?dea

Somali

Noun

cad ?

1. white

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?d/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *kad (“battle”), from Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?tus (“fight”).

Noun

cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)

1. battle, army

Derived terms

• Cadan

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• caed, cafwyd

Verb

cad

1. impersonal preterite of cael

Mutation

English

Etymology

From dude +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d(j)u??d?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

dudette (plural dudettes)

1. (slang, often humorous) A woman.
   • 2013, Judy Faust; Punch Faust, The MOTs File: Memories, Observations, and Thoughts, AuthorHouse ?ISBN, page 88

     As my (metal) knees set off all the security thingies, I am subjected to touchy, feely sessions—usually by a dudette with fat, sweaty hands—before being allowed to wait at the gate for hour after hour. The Joy Of Watching Hockey It is a lovely fall.

2. (slang) A cowgirl, especially a tenderfoot.
   • 1940, Oren Arnold, John Prentiss Hale, Hot irons: heraldry of the range

     Most memorable thing about the first branding work a dude or a dudette witnesses is likely to be the heart-rending " BAWR- R-R-R-R!" of the calf or other animal under the hot iron.

   • 1944, Minute Man

     "Dudettes" in cowgirl outfits combed the business district of Phoenix
3. (slang) A cowboy's wife, or a woman who moves out west with the intention of marrying a cowboy.
   • 1941, Travel

     I'll be cow—hooked if she ain't the best looking thing that's come over the mountains since I married my own dudette!

   • 1949, Arizona Cattlelog

     Saturday evening, March 11, the Dudettes (wives and sweethearts of the Jaycees ) will give their annual all- Western dance at Bud Brown's Barn.

   • 2005, Lesley Poling-Kempes, Ghost Ranch, University of Arizona Press ?ISBN, page 48

     Visiting dudettes found the shy man of the land irresistible.
4. A girl or woman who is noted for being tough or capable.
   • 2013, Sam Kauffman, MADDY - Courage and Heart: Life Lessons From a Puppy Handbook, AuthorHouse ?ISBN, page 138

     Maddy was a dainty and feminine tomboy with a disposition both loving and tough as nails. She was a “dudette” and a debutant. What could have been clashing opposites were perfectly blended in her.

Synonyms

• dudess

Translations

Anagrams

• duetted