caddy

Meanings

1. A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
2. A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
3. A small lidded bin for food waste.
4. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
5. 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.

1. Alternative spelling of caddie (“a person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice”).

1. Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)

1. A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.

1. A Cadillac car.

Etymology

An 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”).