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CuffEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Various etymologies: * As an English surname, from Middle English cuffe (“glove”); see cuff. * As an Irish surname, from mac duibh (“son of the dark one”), see Duff. * As a Cornish surname, from cuf (“kind, dear”), from Proto-Celtic *koymo- (“nice, dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”); see home.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cuffEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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 *kuppju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cuffEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Clipping of handcuff.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗cuffEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”). Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- CuffEnglish · e-37683-6594
Cuff, kuf, n. a stroke with the open hand.—v.t. to strike with the open hand: to beat. [Origin obscure; cf. Sw. kuffa, to knock.]
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Cuff, kuf, n. the end of the sleeve near the wrist: a covering for the wrist: a handcuff (q.v.). [Prob. cog. with Coif.]
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Cuff, kuf, n. Scotch form of Scruff.—Cuff of the neck. See Scruff.
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