a. colloq. [f. CAD2 5 + -ISH1.] Of the nature of a cad; offensively ill-bred; the opposite of gentlemanly.
1826. Times, 3 April, 3/5. He is a good-looking young man, dressed somewhat in the flash, or rather in the caddish style.
1868. Imperial Rev., 22 Feb., 180. We shall be understood when we say, that it is a still more caddish offence.
1881. Blackw. Mag., CXXIX. 186. A cad never seems more caddish than when he comes nearest to the most primeval simplicity of costume.
Hence Caddishly adv., Caddishness sb.
1868. Lond. Rev., 15 Aug., 200/1. The cad takes his caddishness with him.
1878. Cootamundra Herald, 9 April, 3/1. A ‘caddishly disposed, scurrilous inkslinger.’
1880. Miss Braddon, Just as I am, xlv. 307. Innate caddishness which must come out somewhere.
