cuddy

1. (nautical) A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.Examples: "Being summoned to the cuddy to breakfast, I had not been there five minutes when I turned deadly sick, was obliged to retire to my cot […] ."; "It was a strong measure I own, walking into your cuddy, and calling for drink as if I was the Captain […]"; "The sight of that watery-eyed old Jones mopping his bald head with a red cotton handkerchief, the sorrowing yelp of the dog, the squalor of that fly-blown cuddy which was the only shrine of his memory, threw a veil of inexpressibly mean pathos over Brierly’s remembered figure, the posthumous revenge of fate for that belief in his own splendour which had almost cheated his life of its legitimate terrors."

2. (Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, historical) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.Examples: "folk said the cuddy had bided so long with Pooty that whenever it opened its mouth to give a bit bray it started to stutter."DurhamScotlandhistorical

3. (UK, mining) A pony that works in a mine.UK

4. (dated) A blockhead; a lout.Examples: "1840-1841, Thomas Hood, "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg" It cost more tricks and trouble, by half, Than it takes to exhibit a six-legged calf To a boothful of country cuddies."dated