(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.
Muddy
Definition:
(superl.) Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
(superl.) Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.
(superl.) Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.
(superl.) Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.
(superl.) Not clear or bright.
(v. t.) To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy.
Example Sentences:
(1) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
(2) Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
(3) The other is to muddy the truth, and thereby weaken any international response.
(4) Muddy lines on buildings show how high the water rose.
(5) So I decided to literally track him down, the same way I would track an animal: from muddy footprints, to wet footprints, reading any clue I could in the undergrowth.
(6) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
(7) Mighty Deer Stalker Tough 10km off-road (and very muddy) run in Peeblesshire, Scotland, which starts at dusk.
(8) It is counterintuitive, but terrorism is a really muddy concept.
(9) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
(10) Six years after Rover's collapse, there is certainly plenty of open space at the centre of this formerly thriving town: hundreds of acres of flattened muddy fields where 6,000 skilled workers once toiled.
(11) Later still, the local police chief was removed as primary responder, but he still managed to muddy the waters (which the Brown family calls character assassination) by first releasing video of a black robber and then admitting it had nothing to do with Brown's shooting.
(12) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(13) Further genetic explorations will, no doubt, provide clarity to the somewhat muddy picture of both etiology and complications.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An example of a rare Bechstein’s bat roost in a partially hollow oak tree, Finemere Wood, Buckinghamshire, ancient wood and nature reserve next to HS2 Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian After Prideaux dropped me off in a neighbour’s muddy farmyard, I climbed a hill into Finemere Woods, an ancient woodland owned by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust .
(15) It has what Hab's design director, Isabel Allen, calls a "muddy, soggy landscape" which has the added benefit that it is fun for children to play in it.
(16) Top Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design a sublime new station, like the one in nearby Liège, but this costly project won’t be finished until late 2015 at the earliest, so many of the expected two million visitors will have to pick their way around a muddy construction site.
(17) Click here to view video Dean Cundey, director of photography Romancing the Stone had been a very muddy, arduous shoot, so Back to the Future was simple by comparison – most of it was shot on the lot at Universal, or in neighbourhoods in Pasadena.
(18) If you start attacking Google, keep attacking Google – don't muddy the message by changing tack.
(19) Is democracy aided by another Conservative muddying the democratic waters?
(20) Most of the patients gave a history of bathing in muddy stagnant pools of water.