plural cuddies
1
: a usually small cabin or shelter (as on a sailboat)
2
: a small room or cupboard
variants
or cuddie
plural cuddies
Synonyms
Noun (1)
Noun (2)
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- meathead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schlub [slang]
- shlub
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of cuddy in a Sentence
Noun (1)
kept his stash of liquor in a small cuddy by the dining room
Noun (2)
the pub seemed to be the favorite haunt of every cuddy in the village
Recent Examples on the Web
Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
Officials contacted people on the boat — described as a 30- to 35-foot-long cuddy cabin — and found 10 men and five women on board, according to a statement by the U.S. Border Patrol.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
Noun
Wright’s boat, a 21-foot cuddy cabin, remains moored at dock, just like his fishing/mentoring ministry.
—Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
Officials contacted people on the boat — described as a 30- to 35-foot-long cuddy cabin — and found 10 men and five women on board, according to a statement by the U.S. Border Patrol.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
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“Cuddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuddy. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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