Cuff Definition
To handcuff.
- In an extemporaneous or informal manner.
- On credit.
- in an offhand manner; extemporaneously
- on credit
- to flex the elbow or wrist so as to expose one's shirt cuffs beyond the coat sleeves
Other Word Forms of Cuff
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cuff
Origin of Cuff
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From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
From Wiktionary
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1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”). Related to Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). Perhaps related also to Swedish skuffa (“to push, shove”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.
From Wiktionary
Middle English cuffe mitten
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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