cuff

Meaning

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.

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʌf/

Etymology

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”).