Save Gender Feminine & Masculine Usage English (Rare), Literature Pronounced Pron. KAD-ee [key] Meaning & History Variant of Caddie. Fictional bearers include Caddy Jellyby, a character in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House (1853), and Candace "Caddy" Compson, a character in William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury (1929).