Meaning

4 senses
  1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.

    Flegel

    грубия́нgrubiján, пошлякpošljak, хамxam

  2. A caddis (caddisfly larva).

  3. (archaic)A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.

  4. (Ireland, UK, obsolete, slang)An idle hanger-on about innyards.

More definitions
  • someone who is morally reprehensible
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Translations

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Origin

Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from Occitan capdet (“chief, captain”), f

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

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Forms

plural: cads
Singularcad
Pluralcads

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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