cuff

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

manchette

menotte

taloche

poignet

revers

torgnole

menotter

revers de pantalon

souffleter

bas

talocher

gifle

gifler

ourlet

Synonymes

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

Traductions

polsino

Manschette

manchet

puño

✊

μανικέτι

schiaffo

schiaffeggiare

puny

✊

rovescia

ρεβέρ

risvolto

Schläge

Schleppe

🚋

ammanettare

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kʌf/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: cuffe

Hérité de ancien anglais: cuffie

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: kupfe

Appartenant à lituanien: skùbti

Appartenant à polonais: skubać

Appartenant à albanais: humb

Appartenant à bas-allemand: kuffen

Appartenant à allemand: 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”).