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Buddy vs Cuddy - What's the difference?

buddy | cuddy |

As nouns the difference between buddy and cuddy

is that buddy is a friend or casual acquaintance while cuddy is a cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.

As a verb buddy

is to assign a buddy, or partner.

As a proper noun Buddy

is a male nickname.

buddy

English

Noun

(buddies)
  • A friend or casual acquaintance.
    • They have been buddies since they were in school.
  • A partner for a particular activity.
    • drinking buddies
  • An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know.
    • Hey, buddy , I think you dropped this.

    Synonyms

    * (friend or acquaintance): mate * (address to a stranger): mate * See also

    Derived terms

    * buddy store * buddy system * buddy up * Buddyroll * fuck buddy

    Verb

  • To assign a buddy, or partner.
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Philip Briggs & Danny Edmunds, Mozambique: The Bradt Travel Guide citation
    • , passage=If you are being formally buddied , have a good chat with your buddy and find out their interests -- these should more or less match your own.}} English terms of address

    cuddy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain. Perhaps a contraction from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (cuddies)
  • (nautical) a cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck
  • a small cupboard or closet
  • (Scotland) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 31:
  • *: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.
  • (UK, mining) A pony that works in a mine.
  • (dated) A blockhead; a lout.
    • (Hood)
  • A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
    • (Knight)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl); compare Gaelic cudaig, cudainn, or English cuttlefish, or cod.

    Alternative forms

    * cudden

    Noun

    (cuddies)
  • The coalfish ().
    • (Webster 1913)