different between caddy vs cavalier

English

Alternative forms

• caddie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kædi/
• Rhymes: -ædi
• Homophones: cattie, catty (in dialects with flapping)

Etymology 1

From Scots caddie, from the French cadet. Doublet of cadet, caudillo, and capitellum.

Noun

caddy (plural caddies)

1. (golf) One hired to assist another in playing the game of golf.

   "Caddy, pass me my five iron."

Translations

Verb

caddy (third-person singular simple present caddies, present participle caddying, simple past and past participle caddied)

1. (intransitive, golf) To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc.

   I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay kati, a weight.

Noun

caddy (plural caddies)

1. A small box, can, or chest to keep things in.
   • 1990, The Washingtonian (volume 25, page 121)

     A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies.

   • 2019, Nancy E. Davis, The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America:

     The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.

2. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding, securing, and transporting a removable component within a piece of machinery or equipment.

   Place the disc in the DVD caddy.

Derived terms

• desk caddy
• tea caddy

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “caddy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “caddie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English caddy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.di/

Noun

caddy m (plural caddies or caddys)

1. (golf) caddy
   • 2016, Nora Roberts, Crime en fête.

2. golf cart
3. supermarket trolley
   • 2013, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Délivrance. La troisième enquête du département V.

Further reading

• “caddy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

[1589] Borrowed from Middle French cavalier (“horseman”), itself borrowed from Old Italian cavaliere (“mounted soldier, knight”), borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caball?rius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”), probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) K?b 'nag' and Old Church Slavonic ?????? (kobyla) 'mare'.

Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæv??l???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: cav?a?lier

Adjective

cavalier (comparative more cavalier, superlative most cavalier)

1. Not caring enough about something important.
   • 2012, Barbara Seaman, Laura Eldridge, Voices of the Women's Health Movement (volume 1)

     Such a cavalier attitude might seem to suggest that doctors consider the uterus as dispensable an organ as, say, an appendix—and some feminists have accused the medical profession of just such callousness […]

2. High-spirited.
3. Supercilious.

   Synonyms: haughty, disdainful, curt, brusque

4. (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).

Translations

Noun

cavalier (plural cavaliers)

1. (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
2. (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
3. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
   1. (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.

      Antonym: Roundhead

4. (slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.

   Antonym: roundhead
5. (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.

Translations

Verb

cavalier (third-person singular simple present cavaliers, present participle cavaliering, simple past and past participle cavaliered)

1. (transitive, dated) Of a man: to act in a gallant and dashing manner toward (women).
   • 1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate (page 427)

     His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.

   • 1916, Good Housekeeping (volume 64, page 113)

     "I thought," Graeme burred at him, transfixing him with shrewd eyes, "that you were cavaliering the Italian girl, Beatrice Cenci or Vittoria Colonna or whatever her name is?"

References

Anagrams

• variceal

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cavaliere, itself borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caball?rius. Doublet of chevalier, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.va.lje/

Noun

cavalier m (plural cavaliers, feminine cavalière)

1. horseman, particularly:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch... Exceptions to this rule are generally words incorporated into classical French (i.e., the descendant of the old dialect of the Isle de France) from other dialects, as those of Normandy or Picardy, or are introduced from the Italian, as cavalier, &c.

   1. knight
   2. cavalier: an early modern cavalry officer
   3. (horse-)rider
2. (chess, m) knight
3. (card games, m) knight (in tarot)
4. (m) U-nail, fence staple, construction staple
5. (m) cable clip
6. (danse, m) (male) partner
7. (m) (male) date, (male) companion for social activities

Derived terms

• faire cavalier seul

Adjective

cavalier (feminine singular cavalière, masculine plural cavaliers, feminine plural cavalières)

1. equestrian
2. cavalier (all senses)

See also

Further reading

• “cavalier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• calvaire