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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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‡CUDDUM, CUDDEM, Cuddom, Cuddim, Cudden, Cuddan, v., n., adj.  [′kʌdəm, ′kʌdən]

1. v. To train, tame, subdue, domesticate, accustom. Known to Abd.⁶ 1913, cuddum. Ppl.adj. cuddom'd, cuddimt, cudden't, settled, accustomed (to a place) (Mry.¹ 1925, cuddomd; Abd.⁴ 1929, cuddimt); acquainted; fond of warmth and comfort (Ork. 1975).ne.Sc. 1832 A. Beattie Poems 133:
She never yet was cuddom'd, man. Sae get the shoon and shoeing gear.Abd. [1768] A. Ross Helenore (1778) 44:
Well, aunt, ye please me now, well mat ye thrive, Gin ye her cuddum, I'll be right belyve.Abd. 1902 J. Ogilvie J. Ogilvie 67:
It was better to begin me with short easy lessons, till I was once cuddomed.Ags. 1790 D. Morison Poems 121:
Alas! she'll be my dead, Unless ye cuddem and advise the lass.Gall. 1702-3 Session Bk. Minnigaff (1939) 73, 102: 
To go and sek after some cuddand sheep which nighbours had informed were straying from the ground where her husband heards. . . . Andrew M'Millan in Puldroch buoy did drive cuddan sheep on the Sabbath day from the Miln of Riskhome.Wgt. 1939 (per Kcb.¹⁰):
If they [two foals] were put into a field at once they would not be friendly for some time. They are therefore shut up together in a dark loose-box for two days or so “to get cudden't” or acquainted. I knew of the practice, but only heard the word recently.

Phr.: †cuddumin siller, “money given to a shepherd, that he may be attentive to a beast newly joined to the herd or drove” (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.).

2. n. “A custom” (Abd. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems, Gl.).

Phr. cuddom o' tait, “the custom of giving a newly-bought horse part of a handful of unthreshed straw as it enters the new stable, and putting the remainder above the stable-door, the idea being that the horse, when at liberty outside, will remember and return to finish the straw” (Sc. 1911 S.D.D. Add.).

3. adj. “Tame, usually applied to a beast” (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.).