cuff

CEFRB1

/kʌf/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The end part of a sleeve around the wrist.

  2. 02

    verb

    To hit someone lightly, usually with the hand.

Examples

  • I'm not good at speaking off the cuff.

  • Mona answered their questions off the cuff.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.

  2. Glove; mitten

  3. The end of a pants leg when folded up.

More examples

In context

  • cuffing season

  • This fr how it be, never cuffing another Latina woman from New York ever again💀

  • If your promiscuous, men who know females just date around could take advantage of that, plus a lot wouldn't want to cuff a female they know isn't doing pure things.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The tailor carefully measured the blank of the shirt sleeve.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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”).