(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.
Greengrocer
Definition:
(n.) A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(2) I remember coming out of South Kensington station one evening and seeing these very strange new things on sale (at the greengrocers) called avocado pears.
(3) The queues at my local Turkish greengrocer are much longer just lately, and people's baskets piled much higher.
(4) There are two bakers, two butchers, two wet fish shops, three greengrocers, two general food stores, two florists, two bookshops, three newsagents, and an ironmonger's which sells an astonishing range of goods, including four sorts of mole trap.
(5) Bridget Gubbins Morpeth, Northumberland • Visiting a greengrocer’s shop, I asked for a melon ( Letters , 5 August).
(6) Preservation of old-fashioned English values, the flag of St George hanging from every public building and greengrocers with English accents selling cox's apples in imperial measures.
(7) Born in Leicester, the son, grandson and great-grandson of greengrocers, he left school with four O-levels and joined Leicester City's youth team in 1976.
(8) Two months later, in August 2001, greengrocer Habil Kılıç, 38, was shot twice in his shop in the Munich suburbs.
(9) In Bristol, the proliferation of local micro-breweries, vinyl revival record stores and pop-up greengrocers is mirrored in the rise of a new breed of grassroots congregation, attracting younger, trendier demographics with considerable success.
(10) Round the corner at 28 rue de l'Evêché, rubbing shoulders with a greengrocers and a charcuterie, we found the workshop and tiny boutique Cecile aux Etoiles, full of gorgeous clothes in deceptively simple designs made by Cecile, who is on hand for on-the-spot alterations.
(11) It was the second day of Shorten’s promised three-week tour of the supermarkets and greengrocers of key Australian electorates, which began with a visit to Woolworths in Queanbeyan on Tuesday and the now infamous inquiry: “What’s your favourite type of lettuce?” That awkward attempt at small talk has since spurred a national debate about salad greens but not, unfortunately for Shorten, a debate about whether the Turnbull government intends to increase the GST to 15%.
(12) This recreation of a Victorian town comes with pub, pharmacy, greengrocers, drapers, printers, candle-makers, workers' cottages, bakery and even a chip shop.
(13) The new fees mean our future leaders are unlikely to be the daughters of greengrocers like Margaret Thatcher, or sons of vicars like Gordon Brown.
(14) Photograph: Martin Pope for the Guardian Tracy Brown has run Crab Apple greengrocers for the past eight years.
(15) If shops like us close it will be catastrophic for the town.” Greengrocers Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tracy Brown, of Crab Apple greengrocers: ‘It’s ludicrous we are no longer considered a small business’.
(16) There's such a feeling for your neighbour here Ottery St Mary, Devon Percy Franks, 80, pensioner I was a greengrocer in Ottery for 49 years, but also ran a coal business and a wood business.
(17) If you get through a lot, a whole box from a greengrocer will work out significantly cheaper.
(18) Perhaps I'll start a new show, Made in Dollis Hill, similar but set a few miles north, starring me, my neighbours, John the greengrocer, with his van.
(19) Two weeks later, in Hamburg, 500km north, Süleyman Taşköprü, 31, was shot three times and died in his greengrocer’s shop.
(20) The greengrocer's has a huge Ramadan calendar outside, but in the middle of a bright afternoon there are a great many people eating and drinking in public.