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Caddy

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A ghost, a bugbear. A caddis is a grub, a bait for anglers.

Poor Mister Leviathan Addy!

Lo! his grandeur so lately a sun,

Is sinking (sad fall!) to a caddy.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cabiri
Cable’s Length
Cabochon (En)
Cachecope Bell
Cachet (pron. cahshay)
Cacodæmon
Cacoethes (Greek)
Cacus
Cad
Caddice
Caddy
Cade
Cader Idris
Cadessia (Battle of)
Cadet
Cadger
Cadi
Cadmean Letters (The)
Cadmean Victory (Greek, Kadmeia nikê; Latin, Cadmea Victoria)
Cadmeans
Cadmus