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Ruddy vs Cuddy - What's the difference?

ruddy | cuddy |

As nouns the difference between ruddy and cuddy

is that ruddy is ruddy duck while cuddy is a cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.

As an adjective ruddy

is reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.

As a verb ruddy

is to make reddish in colour.

ruddy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
  • (British, slang) A mild intensifier.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (reddish in color) rosy * (intensifier) bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming * See also

    See also

    *

    Noun

    (ruddies)
  • (informal) ruddy duck
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Deborah Baldwin, title=Close to Nature, and the Airport, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies , greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls. }}

    Verb

  • To make reddish in colour.
    • The sunset ruddied our faces.
    (Sir Walter Scott)
    English intensifiers

    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)