Definition of "cad" in англійська

noun

1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.

2. (archaic) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.

   • We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.

3. (UK, Ireland, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.