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 Cu’cumber Time.Cudgel One’s Brains (To). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cuddy.
 
An ass; a dolt. A gipsy term, from the Persian gudda and the Hindustanee ghudda (an ass).   1
       
“Hast got thy breakfast, brother cuddy?”
       
D. Wingate.
 


 Cu’cumber Time.Cudgel One’s Brains (To). 

 
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