1833. Hood, Sk. fr. Road. Though I am a cad now, I was once a
coachman. [m.]
1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. xxxiii., p. 279. He paused, and
contemplated, with a face of great calmness and philosophy, the
numerous cads and drivers of short stages who assemble near that
famous place of resort [the Mansion-House].
1851–61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, vol. III., p. 355.
The conductor, who is vulgarly known as the cad, stands on a small
projection at the end of the omnibus.