cuddy

plural cuddies

1. nauticalA cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.

   It was a strong measure I own, walking into your cuddy, and calling for drink as if I was the Captain […]

   1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

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   Being summoned to the cuddy to breakfast, I had not been there five minutes when I turned deadly sick, was obliged to retire to my cot […] .

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 77

   The sight of that watery-eyed old Jones mopping his bald head with a red cotton handkerchief, the sorrowing yelp of the dog, the squalor of that fly-blown cuddy which was the only shrine of his memory, threw a veil of inexpressibly mean pathos over Brierly’s remembered figure, the posthumous revenge of fate for that belief in his own splendour which had almost cheated his life of its legitimate terrors.

   1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 6, in Lord Jim

2. A small cupboard or closet.
3. DurhamScotlandhistoricalNorthumberlandA donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.

   folk said the cuddy had bided so long with Pooty that whenever it opened its mouth to give a bit bray it started to stutter.

   1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31

4. UKbusinessA pony that works in a mine.
5. datedA blockhead; a lout.

   1840-1841, Thomas Hood, "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg" It cost more tricks and trouble, by half, Than it takes to exhibit a six-legged calf To a boothful of country cuddies.

6. A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.

plural cuddies · alternative cuddie · alternative cudden · alternative cuth

1. A coalfish (Pollachius virens).

plural cuddies

1. slangAfrican-American VernacularA close friend or buddy.

   Good night to my cuddies.. meek.. drake.. the ghostwriter and el chapo

   2015 July 22, @kevinedwardsjr, Twitter, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024

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   I can't lie, I like to get high and figure-8 when I drive / Blow doja rope in the sky for all my cuddies that died

   1996 April 23, “Get Right”, in Untouchable, performed by Mac Mall ft. LeVitti

   I could never imagine myself raising my hand to hit my Jasmine. She's my cuddy. We practically grew up together.

   2012, Zonie Felder, January Jackson & Friends: The Premiere, Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 71

plural Cuddys

1. A surname.