Cuff vs Cufflike - What's the difference?
cuff | cufflike |
(obsolete) glove; mitten.
The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
The end of a pants leg, folded up.
To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To fight; to scuffle; to box.
* Dryden
To buffet.
* Tennyson
A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
* Spenser
* Hudibras
Resembling or characteristic of a cuff.
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As a noun cuff
is (obsolete) glove; mitten or cuff can be a blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.As a verb 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.As an adjective cufflike is
resembling or characteristic of a cuff.cuff
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cuffe, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
1520, “to hit”, apparently of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
- They with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
- While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
- cuffed by the gale
Noun
(en noun)- Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff.
- Many a bitter kick and cuff .
cufflike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation