Cuddie the Cooper
Cuddie the Cooper - meaning Summary
Bawdy Trades and Payment
This short comic poem presents a bawdy, humorous episode in Scots dialect: a cooper named Cuddy repairs the landlady’s tub and in the process bangs her buttocks against the wall. When asked if he has any money, he answers no, so she pays him a guinea for the rough treatment. The poem trades on sexual innuendo, rustic characters, and plain, colloquial voice to create a jocular vignette about work, payment, and earthy physicality.
Read Complete AnalysesThere was a cooper they ca'd him Cuddy, He was the best cooper that ever I saw; He came to girth our landlady's tubbie, He bang'd her buttocks again the wa'. Cooper quo' she, hae ye ony mony? The deevil a penny, quo' Cuddy, at a'! She took out her purse, an' she gied him a guinea, For banging her buttocks again the wa'.
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