Chance cuddleys

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  • chance-medley: the accidental killing of a person in a fight
    • Ulysses 681.10: "chance medley in Beaver street"
    • Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard p. 152: "... who, after a moment's reflection, found it no more than chance medley."
    • Wikipedia
  • cuddle: to fondle → contrasted with cudgel
  • cudgel: to beat with a club → contrasted with cuddle
  • Elizabeth Chudleigh: 18th century socialite; she married Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, in 1744; her second marriage in 1769 was to the 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, from whom she took the married name Pierrepont (French for "stone-bridge")
  • cuddy: (Anglo-Irish) a night's hospitality
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