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Definition: Cuddy |
CuddyNoun1. The galley or pantry of a small ship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cuddy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cuddy An ass; a dolt. A gipsy term, from the Persian gudda and the Hindustanee ghudda (an ass). "Hast got thy breakfast, brother cuddy?" D. Wingate. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Carrier | Ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy, ladino; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cuddy |
| English words defined with "cuddy": Cudden. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cuddy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Cuddy" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cuddy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cuddy | Last name | 1,000 | 15,216 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cuddy, PA |
Expression using "cuddy": cuddy toy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cuddy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gomar (ass, donkey, imbecility, jackass, moke, mutton head, Neddy, owl, stupid person), dhomëz (chamber, compartment, crib, cubbyhole, cubicle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кухня (cook-room, cuisine, kitchen), килер (storeroom), малка каюта. (various references) | |
Dutch | roef. (various references) | |
French | peluche (cuddy toy). (various references) | |
German | Pflicht (compulsory exercises, compulsory section, duty, function, obligation, office, onus, part, responsibility, task, trust). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csacsi (ass, ass's foal, burro, dickey, dicky, geese, goose, jerusalem pony, moke, Neddy). (various references) | |
Manx | bwaane (booth, cabin, cottage, cuddy on barge, hovel, hut, kiosk, outhouse, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, stall, stand). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uddycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), simplório (calvish, cully, dotterel, gaby, gander, goose, juggins, lummox, muggins, mutt, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, oaf, pigeon, prodigy, sawney, simp, simple, simple-minded, simpleton, soft, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, sucker, weak, woodcock, zany), porrete (blackjack, club), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), guarda-louça (ambry, china-closet, cupboard, lumber-room, lunch counter, sideboard), gabinete (cabinet, camarilla, chamber, council, ministry, parlor, parlour, reception desk), armário (ambry, cabinet, closet, sideboard, wardrobe). (various references) | |
Romanian | cabinã (berth, booth, cabin, compartment, hutch, state room). (various references) | |
Russian | осел (ass, asses, donkey, jackass, moke, mutton-head, Neddy), небольшая каюта, дурак (berk, blunderhead, bonehead, bone-head, dimwit, fool, goof, goose, half-wit, jackass, juggins, lack-brain, log-head, man of Gotham, moke, mutt, mutton-head, ninny, nitwit, nut, pin-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, sheep's head, sheep's-head, silly, softy, tomfool, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham, wooden head). (various references) | |
Scottish | cudaig (the fish cuddy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | orman (cabinet, chest, locker, wardrobe), mala kabina. (various references) | |
Turkish | odacık (Cubby, cubicle), gemi salonu, güverte kamarası, göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, drawer, eye, eyehole, glim, ocular, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orb, orbit, orbital, peeper, sight), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, trap, wardrobe, water wheel, wile). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Cuddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cdd, cidd, coddy, Cudi, cudy, Cuidado, cundy, curdy, duddy, fuddi, fuddy, Huddy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cuddy" (pronounced ku"dē) |
| 3 | -u" d ē | bloody, buddy, cruddy, Duddy, muddy, ruddy, study. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-d-u-y" | |
-2 letters: cud, dud. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-d-u-y" | |
+1 letter: cruddy, cuddly. | |
+3 letters: deucedly. | |
+5 letters: corduroyed, redundancy, secludedly, uncandidly. | |
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