"Cad" Definition

Definitions for the word "Cad" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. abbr.
Computer aided design.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
4. n.
Man who behaves dishonourably. caddish adj. [abbreviation of *caddie]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. slang
or CADGER (from which it is shortened), a mean or vulgar fellow; a beggar; one who would rather live on other people than work for himself; a man who tries to worm something out of another, either money or information. _Johnson_ uses the word, and gives _huckster_ as the meaning, in which sense it was originally used. Apparently from CAGER, or GAGER, the _old Cant_ term for a man. The exclusives at the English Universities apply the term CAD to all non-members. It has also been suggested that the word may be a contraction of the _French_ CADET.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
6. slang
an omnibus conductor. Of late years the term has been generically applied to the objectionable class immortalized by Thackeray under the title of snob. A great deal of caddism is, however, perpetrated by those who profess to have the greatest horror of it—the upper classes—a fact which goes far to prove that it is impossible to fairly ascribe a distinctive feature to any grade of society.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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