cuff

Significado (English)

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.

Noun

A handcuff.

Noun

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

Noun

The scruff of the neck.

Conceptos

puño

✊

vuelta

puño de la camisa

abofetear

sopapo

bofetada

dar un manotazo

ruedo

manillas de hierro

puñalada

Synonyms

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

jab

lam

lash

leg

🦵

pat

prod

sleeves

apoplexy

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kʌf/

Etimología (English)

Inherited from inglés medio: cuffe

Inherited from inglés antiguo: cuffie

Cognate with alto alemán medio: kupfe

Cognate with lituano: skùbti

Cognate with polaco: skubać

Cognate with albanés: humb

Cognate with bajo alemán: kuffen

Cognate with alemán: 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”).