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Buffing vs Cuffing - What's the difference?

buffing | cuffing |

As verbs the difference between buffing and cuffing

is that buffing is while cuffing is .

As nouns the difference between buffing and cuffing

is that buffing is material removed by the action of someone who buffs while cuffing is the act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.

buffing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Material removed by the action of someone who buffs.
  • * (Sir Humphry Davy)
    • the burning machine for blowing dirt and buffings off the work

    cuffing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
  • * (Mark Twain), Following the Equator
    • I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.