caddism

noun

caddism

noun

Etymology From cad + -ism.

1

caddish behaviour

A great deal of caddism is, however, perpetrated by those who profess to have the greatest horror of it—the upper classes—a fact which goes far to prove that it is impossible to fairly ascribe a distinctive feature to any grade of society.1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:

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