cuff
substantivoverbosubstantivoverboverbosubstantivosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
- Estados Unidos//kʌf//
- Austrália//kɐf//
- //kʊf//
The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
substantivo
- 1
obsoletoGlove; 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.
Etimologia
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”).
verbo
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To furnish with cuffs.
substantivo
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informalA handcuff.
Etimologia
Clipping of handcuff.
verbo
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To handcuff.
- 2
calãoTo enter into a committed romantic relationship with (someone).
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.
After my last relationship I was so amped to be happy and single, but it's funny how when you are that it's as if potential SOs gravitate even more. It wasn't too long of that before I naturally got cuffed and I'm happy in a relationship but got damn I do wish I had more time happy and single
verbo
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To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
[They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food.
- 2
To fight; to scuffle; to box.
While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
- 3
To buffet.
cuffed by the gale
Etimologia
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.
substantivo
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A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
The Sarazin sore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff:
many a bitter kick and cuff
substantivo
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The scruff of the neck.
Formas
- plural
- cuffs
- pretérito
- cuffed
- particípio passado
- cuffed
- gerúndio
- cuffing
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- cuffs
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