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noun (1)

ˈkə-dē How to pronounce cuddy (audio)
Definition of cuddynext
as in pantry
a built-in space for storage behind a door kept his stash of liquor in a small cuddy by the dining room

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noun (2)

ˈku̇-dē How to pronounce cuddy (audio)
variants or cuddie
British dialect
as in idiot
a stupid person the pub seemed to be the favorite haunt of every cuddy in the village

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Recent Examples of cuddy
Noun
The Coast Guard's Terrel Horne interdicted a 25-foot cuddy cabin boat containing 18 Mexican nationals on board. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026 Saturday when the ship encountered a cuddy-cabin vessel moving at a high rate of speed, according to the Coast Guard. — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuddy
  1. pantry
  2. moron
  3. cupboard
  4. stupid
  5. dummy
  6. prat
  7. mutt
  8. loser
Noun
  • Over the past 30 years, the Northland Shepherd’s Center has provided a food pantry, Meals on Wheels, transportation, technology assistance, support groups, caregiver support, enrichment programming and exercise classes for older adults.
    — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The league could expand its existing community programs by partnering with food banks, funding mobile food pantries, providing meals to children during the offseason and directing team charitable dollars toward local food-security programs.
    — Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of pantry
Noun
  • God help us all if some idiot, some moron, ever put you in charge.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 July 2026
  • Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2026
Definition of moron
Noun
  • By refusing to unload the cupboard for Da’Aaron Fox when the Kings were shopping him before the February 2025 trade deadline, the Heat retained the first-round inventory needed to make the Antetokounmpo trade.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Cole recalled how, at the close of those early shows, the drawings were removed from their frames and returned to Auckland, to be put back in their cupboards.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of cupboard
Noun
  • My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Problem is, even people who know baseball don’t know baseball, which makes betting on baseball stupid.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of stupid
Noun
  • Chelsea have lapses of startling vulnerability out of possession, and while Odegaard’s winner early in the second half was decorated by a sublime Havertz dummy, the move which led to it was far too simple to settle a game of this quality.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Set in 1994, Speak follows a twelve-year-old boy who observes his father’s behavior turn terrifyingly unhinged following the inheritance of a vintage ventriloquist dummy.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of dummy
Noun
  • There are big box store flash mobs, horses, prat falls and, of course, lots and lots of screaming.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat).
    — J.T., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
Definition of prat
Noun
  • But when the mutt chases a fox into the wilderness and doesn't return, Fielding and his father launch a massive search to recover him, growing closer together as a result.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Antonio Nowden, a neighbor who lives at the Kelly Road house, said April 1 that the dog in question, a mutt with brown fur and a white spot on its chest, is not his.
    — Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of mutt
Noun
  • Not to mention his owner, Charlie Brown, perhaps the most lovable loser ever drawn.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
  • There was no way Weekend Predictions could be the biggest local loser in Week 1.
    — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of loser

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