Definition of "cuny" [cuny]

• An ordinary seaman. (noun)

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• ""In such matters a cuny is naught particular," I temporized."
• "And, remembering my sea-cuny's patience of forty years 'waiting ere I got my hands on Chong Mong-ju's gullet, I added: You prison curs, you don't know what a man is."
• "This particular sea - cuny, 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."