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Cudden vs Cuddy - What's the difference?

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Cudden is an alternative form of cuddy.


As nouns the difference between cudden and cuddy

is that cudden is (obsolete) a clown; a low rustic; a dolt or cudden can be the coalfish while cuddy is (nautical) a cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck or cuddy can be the coalfish ().

cudden

English

Etymology 1

Compare Scots (cuddy), an ass.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
  • * Dryden
    • The slavering cudden , propped upon his staff.

    Etymology 2

    See cuddy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The coalfish.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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)