Cuff vs Huff - What's the difference?
cuff | huff |
(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
A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
(obsolete) A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance.
To breathe heavily.
To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
To say in a huffy manner.
(draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
To enlarge; to swell up.
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
* South
To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke rudely; to hector; to bully.
* Echard
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 a proper noun huff is
.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 .
huff
English
Noun
(en noun)- With a huff , he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
- Freyja left in a huff .
- Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge of wit. — South.
Verb
(en verb)- The run left him huffing and puffing.
- Bread huffs .
- This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.
- You must not presume to huff us.