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Webster 1913 Edition
Cad
Cad
,Noun.
[Abbrev. fr.
cadet
.] 1.
A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
[Eng.]
Dickens.
2.
A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
[Cant]
Thackeray.
Definition 2024
cad
cad
English
Noun
cad (plural cads)
- A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
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- (historical) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
- 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.
- Charles Dickens, Omnibuses (in Sketches by Boz)
Synonyms
Translations
mean fellow
See also
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- cadu
Etymology
From Latin cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian cădea, cad.
Verb
cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)
- I fall.
Related terms
- cãdeari/cãdeare
- cãdzut
- cãdzui
- scad
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *kʷid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kad̪ˠ/
Pronoun
cad
Synonyms
References
- “1 cía” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- “cad” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
- "cad" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kad/
- Rhymes: -ad
Verb
cad
- first-person singular present tense form of cădea.
- first-person singular subjunctive form of cădea.
- third-person plural present tense form of cădea.
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑːd/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath).
Noun
cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- caed, cafwyd
Verb
cad
- impersonal preterite of cael
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cad | gad | nghad | chad |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |