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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See cuddy.

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Examples

  • While studying the pons asinorum in Euclid, he suffered every cuddie upon the common to trespass upon a large field of peas belonging to the Laird, and nothing but the active exertions of Jeanie Deans, with her little dog Dustiefoot, could have saved great loss and consequent punishment.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Morton saw the importance of the advice, and, throwing himself on the horse which cuddie held in readiness for him behind the thicket, galloped towards a body of cavalry which chanced to be composed entirely of

    Old Mortality 2004

  • "Man, Kenneth, but you hae played the cuddie brawly," was Donald's comforting remark to me after we had left.

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • I would have given half-a-crown at that blessed moment to have been able to wash my hands free of him; but I swithered, and was like the cuddie between the two bundles of hay.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • I would have given half-a-crown at that blessed moment to have been able to wash my hands free of him; but I swithered, and was like the cuddie between the two bundles of hay.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • Euclid, he suffered every cuddie upon the common to trespass upon a large field of peas belonging to the Laird, and nothing but the active exertions of Jeanie Deans, with her little dog

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • While studying the _pons asinorum_ in Euclid, he suffered every _cuddie_ upon the common to trespass upon a large field of peas belonging to the Laird, and nothing but the active exertions of Jeanie Deans, with her little dog Dustiefoot, could have saved great loss and consequent punishment.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • Morton saw the importance of the advice, and, throwing himself on the horse which cuddie held in readiness for him behind the thicket, galloped towards a body of cavalry which chanced to be composed entirely of

    Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

  • Morton saw the importance of the advice, and, throwing himself on the horse which cuddie held in readiness for him behind the thicket, galloped towards a body of cavalry which chanced to be composed entirely of

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • While studying the _pons asinorum_ in Euclid, he suffered every _cuddie_ upon the common to trespass upon a large field of peas belonging to the Laird, and nothing but the active exertions of Jeanie Deans, with her little dog Dustiefoot, could have saved great loss and consequent punishment.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

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