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▪ I. † cuddy1, cudeigh Ireland and Scotland. Obs.
In 6 cuidichie, cuddeehih, cuddeich; cuddicke, -ikie.
[Corruption of Irish cuid oidhche (of which Spenser's cuddeehih was an approximate representation), lit. ‘evening portion’.]
1. orig. A supper and night's entertainment due to the lord from his tenant.
1450Stat. Ireland, Act 28 Hen. VI, c. 1 The Captaines of the same Marchours..doe gather and bring with them..both men and women..to night suppers called Cuddies, upon the said tenants and husbands. 1577–95Descr. Isles Scotl. (in Skene Celtic Scotl. III. App. 429) By thair Cuidichies, that is feisting thair master when he pleases to cum in the cuntrie, ilk ane thair nicht or twa nichtes about. 1586Hooker Girald. Ireland in Holinshed II. 23/2 That no lords..shall extort or take anie coine and liuerie, cosheries, nor cuddies, nor anie other like custome from thenseforth. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 623/2 The sayd Irish Lord is ..cutt of from his customarye services..as Cuddeehih [v.r. Cuddie], Cosshirh, Bonaught, Shragh, Sorehim, and such like. 1892R. W. Cochran-Patrick Mediæv. Scotl. vi. 81 When systematically due..the custom of cuddikie..was restricted to four meals four times in the year to the Chief and his followers.
2. Hence, a rent or present in lieu of this; a present, a douceur, ‘a gift, a bribe’ (Jam.).
15..Lease in C. Innes Sk. Early Sc. Hist. (1861) 385 A sufficient cuddeich [which I believe means a present given in token of vassalage]. 1728Ramsay Last Sp. Miser xvii, Double pawns With a cudeigh, and ten per cent., Lay in my hands. 1811Aiton Agric. Surv. Ayrshire Gloss. 691 Cudeigh, bribe. 1892R. W. Cochran-Patrick Mediæv. Scotl. i. 9 In the Western Islands this rent was called the ‘Cuddicke’, and is mentioned late on in the fifteenth century.
▪ II. cuddy2|ˈkʌdɪ|
Also 7 cuddie, 8 cuddee.
[Of uncertain origin. Yule and Burnell disclaim an Oriental origin; they compare 16th c. Du. kaiûte, mod.Du. kajuit, used in same sense.]
1. Naut.
a. A room or cabin in a large ship abaft and under the round-house, in which the officers and cabin-passengers take their meals.
In 18th c. ‘a sort of cabin or cook-room in the fore-part or near the stern of a lighter or barge’ (Falconer); the small cabin of a boat.
1660Pepys Diary 14 May, My Lord went up in his nightgown into the cuddy, to see how to dispose thereof for himself. 1725Dudley in Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 264 Another [boat] has had the Stem, or Stern-post..cut off smooth above the Cuddee. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 365 If the quarter-deck be carried, the Men on Guard are to retire to the Cuddy. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 88 She has a magnificent saloon, or cuddy, where 100 persons can dine with comfort in cool weather.
b. spec. The captain's cabin.
1917‘Taffrail’ Sub 109 Breakfast with the skipper was better than breakfast in the gunroom. There were no tinned salmon fishcakes and watery porridge in the ‘cuddy’.
2. A small room, closet, or cupboard. (Cf. cubby.)
1793T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 74 We must give him from four to six or eight dollars a week for cuddies without a bed. 1873M. E. Braddon L. Davoren I. ii. Prol., Dreaming he was in his cuddy at Battersea, supping upon his beloved sausages. 1885H. C. McCook Tenants of Old Farm 119 A constant personal inspection of all one's house, especially of the cuddies and corners.
3. attrib., as cuddy door, cuddy roof, cuddy table.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvii, The youngsters among the passengers..used to draw out Sedley at the cuddy-table. 1861R. E. Scoresby-Jackson Life W. Scoresby xv. 318 He took up his position on the cuddy-roof.
Hence ˈcuddyful.
1841Macaulay Ess. W. Hastings (1854) 654 Every ship..that arrived from Madras..brought a cuddy full of his admirers. 1883Spectator 22 Sept. 1208 A cuddyful of kings.
▪ III. cuddy3 Chiefly Sc.|ˈkʌdɪ|
Also cuddie.
[Of uncertain derivation: the senses here grouped may be distinct in origin: sense 2 is perh. from Gaelic.
In sense 1, a word of the same homely status in Scotch as donkey is in English, for which written evidence begins only in the 18th c. It has been plausibly conjectured to be the same word as Cuddy, a familiar diminutive of Cuthbert in some parts of the north. Cf. the analogous application of Neddy, Dicky, to an ass; but unlike these, cuddy has, now at least, no conscious connexion with the proper name, being, like donkey, simply a common noun. The Gypsy origin conjectured by Jamieson has no basis in fact; there is no name for the donkey common to the Rommany dialects, and the Scottish Gypsy term is eizel from German.]
1. a. A donkey. (Also cuddy ass.)
1714–15Jacobite Songs (1819) 83, The Riding Mare iv, Then hey the ass, the dainty ass..And mony ane will get a bite Or cuddy gangs awa. 1807Hogg Mountain Bard 174 (Jam.) Wi' joy we'll mount our cuddy asses. 1815Scott Guy M. iii, ‘He's nae gentleman..wad grudge..the thristles by the road-side for a bit cuddy.’ 1862Smiles Engineers III. 65 Many a time have I ridden straight into the house, mounted on my cuddy.
b. fig. A stupid fellow, an ‘ass’.
a1845Hood Kilmansegg, Fancy Ball, To exhibit a six-legged calf To a boothful of country Cuddies. 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Sh. 127 You're not going to make a cuddy of me.
c. A (small) horse. Chiefly dial. and Austral.
c1930in R. Ward Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 201 A..stockman..Apostrophized his bloody cuddy. 1944[see curl v.1 1 c]. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 71 Cuddy, [is] used in North English dialect for a donkey. In Australia we use it for a small, solidly built horse. 1969C. Geeson Northumberland & Durham Word Bk. 72 Cuddy, a name for an ass or a small horse.
2. A name for the young of the coal-fish or seath; = cudden 2. [Gael. cudaig, cudainn.]
1775Johnson West. Isl. Wks. X. 406 The cuddy is a fish..not much bigger than a gudgeon, but is of great use in these islands. 1865J. C. Wilcocks Sea Fisherman (1875) 105 Immense numbers of young Coal-fish are taken..in the Scotch lochs under the name of Cuddies. 1883W. Black Four MacNicols iii, ‘Cuddies’ is the familiar name in those parts for young saithe.
3. A local name for the hedge-sparrow or ‘dunnock’, and for the moor-hen.
1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 188 Moorhen..Cuddy. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Cuddy, the hedge-sparrow.
4. Mech. (See quots.)
1852S. C. Brees Gloss. Pract. Archit. 129 Cuddy, a three-legged stand, forming a fulcrum upon which a long pole is placed, and which is used as a spring lever. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Cuddy, a lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad-ties, etc.
5. Comb. cuddy-legs (see quot.).
1880–4F. Day Fishes Gt. Brit. II. 209 Cuddy legs, a large herring. |