cuff

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

To furnish with cuffs.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Glove; mitten
2. The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
3. The end of a pants leg when folded up.
4. A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.

Noun

A handcuff.

Noun

A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.

Noun

The scruff of the neck.

Sinonieme

slap

handcuff

punch

👊

wristband

manacle

buffet

hit

smack

strike

box

📦

blow

hem

wristlet

clout

handlock

thump

armhole

spank

train

🚋

turnup

knock

kick

whomp

smite

thrash

wallop

whack

whip

wrist

wrist band

box the ears

cut edge of a hairdo

foot of mountain

backand

slug

band

bash

beat

biff

bop

bump

cane

club

clump

cop

👮

copper

foot

🦶

fringe

headline

irons

Vertalings

polsino

Manschette

manchet

manchette

puño

✊

μανικέτι

menotte

schiaffo

ammanettare

poignet

puny

✊

Schläge

Schleppe

🚋

taloche

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kʌf/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: cuffe

Geërf van Old English: cuffie

Verwante met Middle High German: kupfe

Verwante met Litaus: skùbti

Verwante met Pools: skubać

Verwante met Albanees: humb

Verwante met Nederduits: kuffen

Verwante met Duits: kuffen

In summary

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-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).