Cuff vs Links - What's the difference?
cuff | links |
(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
(link)
A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
* 1894 , “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , page 570
* 1919 , Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine , no. 296, p. 173.
* 1920 , Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work , page 393
* 1967 , Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland , page 278
* 2002 , Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey , page 95
* 2003 , Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands , page 168
As nouns the difference between cuff and links
is that cuff is glove; mitten while links is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between cuff and links
is that cuff is to furnish with cuffs while links is third-person singular of link.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 .
links
English
Etymology 1
See link.Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(links)- but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
- The royal and ancient game of golf may now claim to be the universal game of the world, as in every part of the habitable globe links are to be found.
- All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
- The links are the property of the town, the Courses being under the management of a joint committee representing the R. & A. Golf Club and the City.
- A true links is built on linksland […]
- A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.
