cuff

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /kʌf/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /kɐf/
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• Northern-England: /kʊf/
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• rhymes with -ʌf
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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.

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”).

Clipping of handcuff.

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.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aromanian: mãnichetã — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Belarusian: абшэ́ўка (abšéwka) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Belarusian: абшла́г (abšláh) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Belarusian: манжэ́та (manžéta) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Bulgarian: манше́т (manšét) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Bulgarian: ръкавела (rǎkavela) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Catalan: punyet — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Catalan: bocamàniga — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Chinese Mandarin: 袖口 (xiùkǒu) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Czech: manžeta — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Danish: manchet — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Dutch: manchet — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Dutch: voormouw — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Emilian: pulsén — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Emilian: peramàn — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Emilian: pulsèin — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Esperanto: manumo — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Finnish: hihansuu — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Finnish: kalvosin — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• French: manchette — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Galician: puño — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• German: Manschette — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• German: Bündchen — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• German: Ärmelbündchen — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• German: Hemdmanschette — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• German: Luftmanschette — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Greek: μανσέτα (manséta) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Hebrew: חֵפֶת (hepet) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Hungarian: mandzsetta — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Indonesian: manset — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Irish: cufa — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Italian: polsino — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Japanese: 袖口 (sodeguchi) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Japanese: カフ (kafu) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Korean: 수구 (sugu) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Korean: 커프스 (keopeuseu) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Macedonian: манже́тна (manžétna) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Malay: cekak — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Navajo: látsíín náztʼiʼí — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Norwegian Bokmål: mansjett — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mansjett — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Polish: mankiet — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Portuguese: punho — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Romanian: manșetă — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Russian: манже́та (manžéta) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Russian: обшла́г (obšlág) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Scottish Gaelic: bann-dùirn — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Slovak: manžeta — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Spanish: puño — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Spanish: ruedo — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Swedish: manschett — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Tagalog: punyos — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Turkish: manşet — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Ukrainian: манже́та (manžéta) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Ukrainian: обшла́г (obšláh) — the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
• Bulgarian: манше́т (manšét) — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Finnish: lahkeenkäänne — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Finnish: housunkäänne — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Finnish: upslaaki — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• French: revers — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• German: Aufschlag — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• German: Umschlag — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• German: Ärmelaufschlag — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• German: Hosenaufschlag — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Greek: ρεβέρ (revér) — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Italian: orlo — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Macedonian: манже́тна (manžétna) — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Polish: mankiet — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Portuguese: barra — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Romanian: manșetă — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Romanian: margine — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Russian: отворо́т (otvorót) — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Spanish: bajo — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Spanish: vuelta — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Spanish: bastilla — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Ottoman Turkish: پاچه (paça) — the end of a pants leg, folded up
• Bulgarian: пляскам (pljaskam) — To hit, as a reproach
• Finnish: läimäyttää — To hit, as a reproach
• French: gifler — To hit, as a reproach
• French: souffleter — To hit, as a reproach
• German: ohrfeigen — To hit, as a reproach
• German: einen Klaps geben — To hit, as a reproach
• German: abfotzen — To hit, as a reproach
• Macedonian: плеснува (plesnuva) — To hit, as a reproach
• Macedonian: удира шлаканица (udira šlakanica) — To hit, as a reproach
• Spanish: abofetear — To hit, as a reproach
• Welsh: cernodio — To hit, as a reproach