cudden
(ˈkʌd(ə)n)
Also cuddin(g.
† 1. A born fool, a dolt. Obs.
| 1673 Wycherley Gentl. Dancing-Master iv. i, Lord! that people should be such arrant cuddens! 1698 Def. Dram. Poetry 80 The Fools we may divide into three Classes, viz. the Cudden, the Cully and the Fop. The Cudden a Fool of God Almighties making. 1700 Dryden Fables, Cymon & Iph. 179 The slavering cudden, propped upon his staff. 1719 D'Urfey Pills V. 309 Jack-puddings, for Cuddens. |
2. local. A name for: a. The coal-fish [Gael. cudainn]; b. ? The char.
| 1791 Ayrsh. Statist. Acc. III. 589 (Jam.) In both loch and river [Doon] there are..cuddings, or charr. 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes (1841) II. 251 Among the Scotch islands the Coalfish is called Sillock..Harbin, Cudden, Sethe [etc.]. 1848 Life Normandy (1863) I. 283 It was some time before I knew that stainloch, grey-fish, seath, cudding, and poddly, were all one fish at different ages. |