What's the difference between blockhead and cuddy?

Blockhead


Definition:

  • (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
  • (2) Wake Up and Make Love With Me – Ian Dury and the Blockheads Linguists may object to the old definition of verbs as "action" words, but tell that to Ian Dury.
  • (3) James May's service company, Blockhead & May, banks with Coutts, but is not quite in the same league as Hammond.
  • (4) It's like gazing through a horrid little window into an awesome universe of pure blockheaded spite.
  • (5) Expect many, many additional parts should the film win over blockheads.
  • (6) Not quite the point that was being made, but then Mr du Bois's name roughly translates as "blockhead".
  • (7) The Blockheads "Explore, mine, craft and build in this giant and detailed sandbox game," explained the Google Play listing for this, with the two key words being "mine" and "craft".

Cuddy


Definition:

  • (n.) An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
  • (n.) A blockhead; a lout.
  • (n.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
  • (n.) A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
  • (n.) The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cuddy said he hoped for a "positive outcome" in a couple of such cases that had been referred to police.
  • (2) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
  • (3) That is not tangible but is important for prevention," said Cuddy.
  • (4) The nature of the directional asymmetry was consistent with results reported for identification and rating of key change in the sequences (Thompson & Cuddy, 1989a).
  • (5) • This article was amended on 12 September 2014 to correct the spelling of Joe Cuddy's name, from Cruddy as an earlier version said.
  • (6) Within a week, one of them, Ray Cuddy, had been arrested in California, unwisely paying cash for a Ferrari.
  • (7) Joe Cuddy, the senior Border Force officer at Gatwick, leads training sessions there for more than 70 officers.
  • (8) "Instead of the girls being removed from the UK to go back to the country of origin to have this procedure carried out, now there are cutters travelling from the country of origin to the UK to carry it out in London and in other cities," Cuddy said, "That is an emerging trend that we have found as a result of this initiative."
  • (9) Investigations into the man are ongoing, but Cuddy said there was a suspicion the paraphernalia could have been used as "proof" for someone in UK that a potential future bride had been cut.
  • (10) The Homesman tells the story of religious homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy (played by Hilary Swank) who hires "homesman" George Briggs (Jones) to help her transport three mentally-ill women away from their hardscrabble lives on the frontier back east to the care of a cleric in Iowa.
  • (11) Cuddy is the civilised frontier embodied, with a farmhouse and a bank account, but even she can be pulled apart by the prairie’s huge skies and bitter winds and the loneliness beneath them.