cuff
/kʌf/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.51 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
noun
A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "Whenever one of my boys cuffs a girl from the club, all I can do is chuckle and shake my head. We all know how it ends."
- "I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kʌf/
- British English: /kʌf/