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1843. J. Hewlett, College Life, I., p. 115. Webb's boy, who went as CAD with the dog.
6. (University and public schools').—A contemptuous term applied to non-school or non-University men. At Cambridge snob, the word Thackeray used, has long been a common term for a townsman; now the undergrad says Townee or Towner (q.v.). The German analogue is Philister. Dr. Günther (Jena and its Environs) tells that of the old towers and gates which formed the entrance to Jena, the square one to the west alone remains; and is remarkable not only for its prison, called 'The Cheese-Basket,' but for four images of monkeys' heads carved at the several corners of the gate itself. In a quarrel between students and townsfolk in the vicinity of the Johannis-Thor, the former dubbed the watchmen there 'the monkey watchmen.' The guard vowed vengeance, and one evening killed a student who had taken no part in the disturbance. The ecclesiastical superintendent, Götz, preached a sermon at the boy's funeral from Judges xvi. 20, 'The Philistines be upon thee, Samson!' and that night his text was heard in the street, Philister über dir Samson! 'Henceforward the citizens were called 'Philister' by the students; and, the name being exported to the other Universities, it came at length to be applied to burgher folk throughout Germany. According to some this fight occurred in 1693. For synonyms, see Rank outsider.
1831. Hone, Year Book, 670. Preceded by one or two bands of music in two boats, rowed by cads.
1856. Rev. E. Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), Adventures of Verdant Green, I., p., 117. And I can chaff a cad.
1860. Macmillan's Mag., March p 327. You don't think a gentleman can lick a cad, unless he is the biggest and strongest of the two.
1873. Saturday Review, September, p. 305. At Oxford the population of the University and city is divided into 'Dons, men and cads.'
7. (general).—A vulgar, ill-mannered person; a blackguard, i.e., a person incapable of moral decency. For synonyms, see Snide.
1849. Charles Kingsley. Alton Locke. 'The cads' 'the snobs,' 'the blackguards,' looked on with a dislike, contempt, and fear which they were not backward to return.
1860. Thackeray. Lovell the Widower, p. 245. There's a set of cads in that club that will say anything.
1880. Punch's Almanack, 12. Lor' if I'd the ochre, make no doubt I could cut no end of big-pots out. Call me a cad? When moneys in the game, cad and swell are pooty much the same.
1882. F. Anstey, Vice Versâ, ch. vii. Perhaps your old governor has been making a cad of himself then, and you're out of sorts with him.
1889. Answers, Feb. 23, p. 205, col. 3. You wouldn't care to know Goodfellow, Miss Smart; he's awfully bad form—a regular cad, you know.
Cadator, subs. (old).—A beggar in the character of a decayed gentleman.
1703. Ward, London Spy, pt. I., p. 7. He is one of those gentile [? genteel] Mumpers, we call Cadators; he goes a Circuit round England once a year, and under Pretence of a decay'd gentleman, gets both Money and Entertainment at every good House he comes at.
ed. 1760. T. Brown, Works, II., 179. You . . . sot away your time in Mongo's fumitory, among a parcel of old smoak-dry cadators.
Caddie, subs. (Scots).—An attendant at golf.
1889. Scots Observer, Feb. Oh, my Caddie, my Caddie ye're a vera intelligent laddie. But I dinna like yer grinnin When I'm no exactly winnin'.
