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Cuddy

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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.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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