Cudden vs Sudden - What's the difference?
cudden | sudden |
(obsolete) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
* Dryden
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
*, chapter=1
, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between cudden and sudden
is that cudden is (obsolete) a clown; a low rustic; a dolt while sudden is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.As nouns the difference between cudden and sudden
is that cudden is (obsolete) a clown; a low rustic; a dolt or cudden can be the coalfish while sudden is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.As an adjective sudden is
happening quickly and with little or no warning.As an adverb sudden is
(poetic) suddenly.cudden
English
Etymology 1
Compare Scots (cuddy), an ass.Noun
(en noun)- The slavering cudden , propped upon his staff.
Etymology 2
See cuddy.sudden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden
