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.
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.

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

Translations

polsino

Manschette

manchet

manchette

puño

✊

μανικέτι

menotte

schiaffo

ammanettare

poignet

puny

✊

Schläge

Schleppe

🚋

taloche

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʌf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cuffe

Inherited from Old English: cuffie

Cognate with Middle High German: kupfe

Cognate with Lithuanian: skùbti

Cognate with Polish: skubać

Cognate with Albanian: humb

Cognate with Low German: kuffen

Cognate with German: 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”).