What is "cuny"

Usage examples of "cuny".

Now Tromp was a rather stupid, slow-thinking, slow-moving cuny, and before he knew what was doing one of the planks, with a scissors-like opening and closing, was about his neck and clamped.

The ki-sang released the cunies and shrank away giggling apprehensively.

I replied, my cuny wits running rashly to the first madness that prompted.

The princely quarters were mine, of course, and Hamel and Maartens, with the rest of the grumbling cunies, had to content themselves with what remained.

This particular seacuny, I admit, blushed through his sea tan till the Lady Om's eyes were twin pools of roguishness in their teasing deliciousness and my arms were all but about her.

Discipline is well hammered into a seacuny, and, despite my new greatness, I could never forget that he had been my captain in the days we sought new Indies in the Sparwehr.

The rest of the cunies, being considered my slaves, could not aspire to office of any sort under the crown.

The people of Cho-Sen are fanatical ancestor-worshippers, and that old pirate of a booty-lusting Dutchman, with his four cunies, in far Kyong-ju, did no less a thing than raid the tombs of the gold-coffined, long-buried kings of ancient Silla.

He and the cunies were rounded in by Yi Sunsin, the local magistrate, one of Chong Mong-ju's adherents.

The seven other cunies escaped from the palace along with the Lady Om.

Johannes Maartens and his three cunies, after being exhibited to be spat upon by the rabble of half the villages and walled cities of Cho-Sen, were buried to their necks in the ground of the open space before the palace gate.

It was further declared that the eight seacunies who survived must not be killed.

Years came and went, and the seven cunies and myself and the Lady Om, passing through middle life into old age, more and more directed our footsteps to Fusan.

And Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side.

Sam Cuny, another of Wells’s seconds, decided to use the opportunity to settle a score with Col.