Crossword clues for cuddy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuddy \Cud"dy\ (-d?), n. [See Cudden. ]
An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
Hence: A blockhead; a lout.
--Hood.(Mech.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
--Knight.
Cuddy \Cud"dy\ (k?d"d?), n. [Prob. a contraction fr. D. kajuit cabin: cf. F.cahute hut.] (Naut.) A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
Cuddy \Cud"dy\, n. [Scot.; cf. Gael. cudaig, cudainn, or E.cuttlefish, or cod, codfish.] (Zo["o]l) The coalfish ( Pollachius carbonarius). [Written also cudden.]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context nautical English) a cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck 2 a small cupboard or closet 3 (context Scotland English) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer. 4 (context UK mining English) A pony that works in a mine. 5 (context dated English) A blockhead; a lout. 6 A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc. Etymology 2
alt. The coalfish ((taxlink Pollachius carbonarius species noshow=1)). n. The coalfish ((taxlink Pollachius carbonarius species noshow=1)).
WordNet
n. the galley or pantry of a small ship
Wikipedia
A cuddy is a small room or cupboard, particularly on a boat. Sometimes a cuddy refers to a small but cosy hut. The origin of the term is not clear. Cuddy was in use in colonial America as early as 1655. The term may derive from the Dutch kajuit, meaning a small cabin, or from the French cahute, meaning a hut.
Cuddy may refer to:
- Cuddy (cabin), a small cabin in a boat
- Cuddy (surname)
- Edward Aburrow senior or Cuddy, English cricketer and reported smuggler
Cuddy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Amy Cuddy (born 1972), American social psychologist
- Alison Cuddy, American radio host
- David Cuddy (born 1952), American businessman and Republican Party politician
- Devin Cuddy, Canadian singer-songwriter, son of Jim Cuddy
- Jim Cuddy (born 1955), Canadian singer-songwriter
- Loftus Cuddy, candidate in the 2004 Canadian federal election
- P.J. Cuddy, hurling player with Laois and Camross
- Paul Cuddy (born 1959), English former professional footballer
- Susan Ahn Cuddy (born 1915), the first female gunnery officer in the United States Navy
- Thomas J. Cuddy, former chief of police in Los Angeles, California
Fictional characters:
- Lisa Cuddy, character in House
- Acting-Constable Cuddy, character in Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
Usage examples of "cuddy".
But my cuddy went bush with the brumbies and I found meself in a prebloodydicament.
Cuddy was a gazehound, hunting by sight rather than scent, but like all hounds, she had keen senses of smell and hearing.
When Mark had pushed us through the doorway and lighted a candle, we found ourselves in a cottage little bigger than the cuddy of a Quoddy boat.
She cared little for bureaucracies creaking roughshod over the world, but Dare Atwood, Cuddy, Scottie Sorensen--they were all the people Caroline loved, the only ones left to protect.
While Gerd Jemasze and Elvo put the yawl to rights, Kurgech boiled up a soup in the forward cuddy, and the three men took a supper of pawpaws, soup and hard-bread.
Walker and Cuddy stepped close, examining it with painstaking care from the thick breech down through the trunnions and the extra foot of spongy, pitted metal at the muzzle.
Amarok had cleared the cuddy, a tiny compartment below and abaft the round deckhouselike structure, it must formerly have been packed solid.
Each end of the whaleboat contained a cupboardlike space called a cuddy.
He had but a short night of it again, since just before dawn an unknown very passionate voice not six inches from the cuddy scuttle cried 'Don't you know how to seize a cuckold's neck, you God-damned lubber?
From there Cuddy could look down on the raw, brawling town of Neayoruk, down to the smoke and thronging masts of the harbor enclosed by a mole running out to an island half a mile from shore, and to the hammered-metal brightness of the Laconian Gulf beyond.
He shorted me on the machine tools, all clapped-out models from the first batches Cuddy did up.
It was lined with tanneries and brick kilns and timber yards and was not generally considered a beauty spot which was why, Cuddy suspected, they'd been given it to patrol 'to get to know the city'.
It was lined with tanneries and brick kilns and timber yards and was not generally considered a beauty spot which was why, Cuddy suspected, they’.