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cuddy
1[ kuhd-ee ]
noun
- Nautical.
- a small room, cabin, or enclosed space at the bow or stern of a boat, especially one under the poop.
- a galley or pantry in a small boat.
- a small locker in an open boat, especially one at the bow.
- (on a fishing boat) a platform on which a net is coiled when not in use.
- a small room, cupboard, or closet.
cuddy
2[ kuhd-ee, kood-ee ]
noun
- a donkey.
- a stupid person.
cuddy
1/ ˈkʌdɪ /
noun
- a young coalfish
cuddy
2/ ˈkʌdɪ /
noun
- dialect.a donkey or horse
cuddy
3/ ˈkʌdɪ /
noun
- a small cabin in a boat
- a small room, cupboard, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of cuddy1
Origin of cuddy2
Word History and Origins
Origin of cuddy1
Origin of cuddy2
Origin of cuddy3
Example Sentences
In several recent studies, a trio of researchers—Dana Carney, Amy Cuddy, and Andy Yapp—have put power under the microscope.
I beg your pardon one moment, but there is another lady coming out of the cuddy.
Her canvas beat the masts and fetched reports out of the tall spars that penetrated the little cuddy like discharges of musketry.
He paused on seeing us, as though he had supposed the cuddy empty, and was ashamed to be seen in that figure.
The captain confided to me the fact that it cost him much more trouble to maintain discipline in the cuddy than among his crew.
The boiler was forward, the miniature engine aft, and between them a cuddy hole for captain and crew.
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