Sc. [f. vb. cardoo, cardow, curdow, expl. by Jamieson as ‘To mend old clothes, patch, botch’ of uncertain origin.]
1837. Lockhart, Scott (1839), VII. 217. A little hunchbacked tailor … one of the race who creep from homestead to homestead … the great gossips and newsmen of the parish,—in Scottish nomenclature cardooers.
