cuddies

Noun

cuddy (plural cuddies)

1. A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
   • Being summoned to the cuddy to breakfast, I had not been there five minutes when I turned deadly sick, was obliged to retire to my cot […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 77
2. A small cupboard or closet.
3. (Durham, Scotland, historical, Northumberland) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
   • 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.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31
4. (UK) A pony that works in a mine.
5. (dated) A blockhead; a lout.
   • It cost more tricks and trouble, by half,
     Than it takes to exhibit a six-legged calf
     To a boothful of country cuddies.1840-1841, Thomas Hood, "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg"
6. A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.

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