cudden

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ʌdən

Etymology 1

Compare Scots cuddy (“an ass”).

Noun

cudden (plural cuddens)

  1. (obsolete) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
    • Dryden
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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