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Cuff vs Cudgel - What's the difference?

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Cuff is a related term of cudgel.


As nouns the difference between cuff and cudgel

is that cuff is (obsolete) glove; mitten or cuff can be a blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap while cudgel is a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

As verbs the difference between cuff and cudgel

is that cuff is to furnish with cuffs or cuff can be to hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap while cudgel is to strike with a cudgel.

cuff

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cuffe, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) glove; mitten.
  • The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
  • The end of a pants leg, folded up.
    • Related terms
    * cufflinks * turnup * off-the-cuff

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with cuffs.
  • To handcuff.

    • Etymology 2

    1520, “to hit”, apparently of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l), (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
  • * Dryden
    • They with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
  • To fight; to scuffle; to box.
  • * Dryden
    • While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
  • To buffet.
  • * Tennyson
    • cuffed by the gale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
  • * Spenser
    • Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff.
  • * Hudibras
    • Many a bitter kick and cuff .

    cudgel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
    • The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates. The threat to swing glinted in his eye.
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
  • * Bunyan
    • He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and falls to rating of them as if they were dogs.

    Synonyms

    * club * singlestick

    Verb

  • To strike with a cudgel.
    • The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters, with his own beatstick no less.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I would cudgel him like a dog if he would say so.
  • To exercise (one's wits or brains).

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