<hw>Cabbage-tree Mob</hw>, and <hw>Cabbagites</hw>, obsolete Australian slang for modern <i>Larrikins</i> (q.v)., because wearing cabbage-tree hats.
1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes `(edition 1855), p. 17:
"There are to be found round the doors of the Sydney Theatre a sort of `loafers' known as the <i>Cabbage-tree mob</i>,—a class who, in the spirit of the ancient tyrant, one might excusably wish had but one nose in order to make it a bloody one. . . . Unaware of the propensities of the cabbagites he was by them furiously assailed."
<hw>Cad</hw>, <i>n</i>. name in Queensland for the <i>Cicada</i> (q.v.).
1896. `The Australasian,' Jan. 11, p. 76, col. 1:
"From the trees sounds the shrill chirp of large green cicada (native cads as the bushmen call them)."
<hw>Caddie</hw>, <i>n</i>. a bush name for the slouch-hat or wide-awake. In the Australian bush the brim is generally turned down at the back and sometimes all round.
<hw>Cadet</hw>, <i>n</i>. term used in New Zealand, answering to the Australian <i>Colonial Experience</i>, or <i>jackaroo</i> (q.v.).
1866. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 68:
"A cadet, as they are called—he is a clergyman's son learning sheepfarming under our auspices."