Meaning

noun an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player

verb act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player

originThe noun is borrowed from Scots caddie (“military cadet; young man; ragamuffin; person engaged to run errands; person hired to assist a golfer”), from French cadet (“army cadet; younger sibling”), from capdet (“captain; chief”) (Gascony, archaic), from Late Latin capitettum, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“head”). Doublet of cadel, cadet, capital,…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0