[The following is the passage quoted by Mr. Fosbroke, from Winckelmann's Description des Pierres Graveés du feu Baron de Stosch. 4to. Florence, 1760, p. 25.:—
"Jaspe rouge. Anubis en pied. Je vais rémarquer ici en passant que les Chretiens Grecs du moyen âge ont figuré S. Christrophle avec tête de Chien, comme Anubis, pour signifier que ce Saint étoit du pays des Cynocéphales. (Pin. Commentar. Vit. S. Christoph., § 6. in Act. SS. Ant. Ful., vol. vi. p. 427.) Tel le voiton sur un ancien Ménologe peint sur bois, dans la Bibliothèque du Vatican; cette rare pièce y est entrée avec la bibliothèque du Marq. Capponi.">[
Cuddy, the Ass.
—Your correspondents have alluded to the words Donkey and Moke not appearing in any of our dictionaries. There is another word for the same animal in general use in Northumberland and the neighbouring counties, Cuddy, which likewise does not appear in the dictionaries I have looked at,—Johnson's amongst the number. Can any of your correspondents give the origin of this word?
J. S. A.
Old Broad Street.
[This word is most probably of Oriental origin, and may have been imported by the gypsies, the ass being their favourite quadruped. Persian gudda signifies an ass; and ghudda has the same signification in Hindostanee.—Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary.]
Toady.
—Will any of your readers be kind enough to explain the origin of this word, which is constantly used in conversation when speaking of a sycophant?
F. M.