Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To coax; spoil.
- To attend officiously.
- To tease; scold; annoy.
- noun A dispute; contention; confusion; noise.
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Examples
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"You ben't to put yourself in a caddle, Mrs. Dale, an 'I know what I be talkin' of."
The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902
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This morning, when I arrived downstairs, the kitchen was all of a caddle.
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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And Robert, you and me will have a drink after all this caddle.
Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892
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There could never come a worser caddle into a man's days nor matrimony, I count.
Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892
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But how's us ever to get out of the caddle where we be?
Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892
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"If ye'd ha 'married, d'ye see, maister," he said, "this caddle couldn't have happened to us."
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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Mrs. Lake could sometimes remember things when she got into bed, but on this occasion her pillow did not assist her; and the windmiller snubbed her for making "such a caddle" about a woman's face she might have seen anywhere or nowhere, for that matter; so she got no help from him.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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"Here's a pretty caddle about giving a boy's due!" said the innkeeper.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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garden i am back to my home, no sleep, in jet lag. early morning, i went to the garden and think that the garden is like me, need to be caddle.
garden lilasvb 2009
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Ther ain't no credit in gettin 'well. Ther' wur no sich a caddle about sick folk when I wur a bwoy. "
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
qms commented on the word caddle
One's work and nutrition do battle
So breakfast each morning's a caddle
Or, too rushed to grapple,
We pocket an apple
And, thwarted again, we skedaddle.
June 21, 2016