caddy
A small box or tin with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew teaA small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
» The golfer gave his caddy some medicine.
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5 senses(also, attributive)A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
a can for storing tea
(broadly)A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
(broadly)A small lidded bin for food waste.
(broadly)A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
Place the disc in the DVD caddy.
(broadly)A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.
Examples
1 sentencesThe golfer gave his caddy some medicine.
Origin
An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupoAn alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”).
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Forms
plural: caddiesSynonyms
1 synonyms- a can for storing tea:tea caddy
Word family
3 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.