英语词汇caddy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

caddy; cadet. According to legend, Mary Queen of Scots was the first woman golfer, so avid a player, in fact, that she contin- ued playing her round when she was informed of her husband’s murder one day in 1567. An old story also claims that Mary in- troduced the word cadet (from the Gascon capdet, “little chief ”) into English from French. Cadet first meant the youngest son of a noble, and by 1630 meant a young no-good who had taken to the streets—its spelling changed to caddy. By the mid-18th century a caddy came to mean a young porter on the streets and finally, a century later, a young porter who carried golf clubs. Independently, the word cadet for the youngest son of a nobleman came to mean a student at a military academy, be- cause the youngest sons of nobles usually became soldiers.

词汇	caddy
词源	caddy; cadet. According to legend, Mary Queen of Scots was the first woman golfer, so avid a player, in fact, that she contin- ued playing her round when she was informed of her husband’s murder one day in 1567. An old story also claims that Mary in- troduced the word cadet (from the Gascon capdet, “little chief ”) into English from French. Cadet first meant the youngest son of a noble, and by 1630 meant a young no-good who had taken to the streets—its spelling changed to caddy. By the mid-18th century a caddy came to mean a young porter on the streets and finally, a century later, a young porter who carried golf clubs. Independently, the word cadet for the youngest son of a nobleman came to mean a student at a military academy, be- cause the youngest sons of nobles usually became soldiers.
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