cudden

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌdən/
• Rhymes: -ʌdən

Etymology 1

Compare Scots cuddy (“an ass”).

Noun

cudden (plural cuddens)

1. (obsolete) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     the slavering cudden, propped upon his staff

Etymology 2

See cuddy.

Noun

cudden (plural cuddens)

1. The coalfish.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cudden”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cunded