English

Noun

cad ‎(plural cads)

1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

2. (historical) 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.
   • Charles Dickens, Omnibuses (in Sketches by Boz)

     We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.

Synonyms

• (low-bred person): villain, dog

Translations

See also

• no way to treat a lady

Anagrams

• ADC
• CDA
• DAC
• DCA

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cadu

Etymology

From Latin cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian cădea, cad.

Verb

cad (third-person singular present indicative cadi/cade, past participle cãdzutã)

1. I fall.

Related terms

• cãdeari/cãdeare
• cãdzut
• cãdzui
• scad

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cid, from Proto-Celtic *kʷid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad̪ˠ/

Pronoun

cad

1. (interrogative, Connacht, Ulster) what

Synonyms

• céard
• cad é
• caidé

References

• “1 cía” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “cad” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "cad" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Lojban

Rafsi

cad

1. rafsi of cando.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad/
• Rhymes: -ad

Verb

cad

1. first-person singular present tense form of cădea.
2. first-person singular subjunctive form of cădea.
3. third-person plural present tense form of cădea.

Somali

Noun

cad ?

1. white

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːd/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *katus (compare Old Irish cath).

Noun

cad f (plural cadau or cadoedd)

1. battle, army

Derived terms

• Cadan

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• caed, cafwyd

Verb

cad

1. impersonal preterite of cael

Mutation