adj. (popular).—Vulgar; offensively ill-bred. [From CAD (q.v., sense 7) + ISH.]
1869. C. W. SHIRLEY BROOKS, Sooner or Later, II., p. 31. ‘Well, I don’t care about walking on Sundays.’ ‘Religious scruples, perhaps.’ ‘I should think not. But it seems so CADDISH—like snobs who can go out on no other day.’
1872. Civilian, Aug. 10. There are many sorts of Ministerial insolence at present ‘on view’ in the House of Commons. Mr. Ayrton’s is coarse and CADDISH, the Attorney-General’s contemptuously courteous, and Mr. Lowe’s cynically and facetiously insulting.
1874. E. L. LINTON, Patricia Kemball, ch. xx. ‘However, I have brought you here to reason, not to wrangle,’ he continued more quietly; ‘and wrangling is CADDISH.’
