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* '''cuddy:''' (''Anglo-Irish'') a night's hospitality | * '''cuddy:''' (''Anglo-Irish'') a night's hospitality | ||
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+ | *'''chance cuddleys:''' what chance is there to cuddle when all this war is taking place? |
Latest revision as of 07:06, 31 October 2023
- chance-medley: the accidental killing of a person in a fight
- cuddle: to fondle → contrasted with cudgel
- cudgel: to beat with a club → contrasted with cuddle
- Elizabeth Chudleigh: 18th century socialite; she married Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, in 1744; her second marriage in 1769 was to the 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, from whom she took the married name Pierrepont (French for "stone-bridge")
- cuddy: (Anglo-Irish) a night's hospitality
- chance cuddleys: what chance is there to cuddle when all this war is taking place?