Cuffed vs Guffed - What's the difference?
cuffed | guffed |
(cuff)
(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
(guff)
(informal) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (informal) Superfluous information.
(informal) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
(slang) To break wind.
(slang) To mislead.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 14:
As verbs the difference between cuffed and guffed
is that cuffed is (cuff) while guffed is (guff).cuffed
English
Verb
(head)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 .
guffed
English
Verb
(head)guff
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.
Synonyms
* (nonsensical talk or thinking) balls, bull, bulldust, bullshit, crap, nonsense, rubbish, tripe * (insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks) brass neck, cheek, impudence, insolence, lipVerb
(en verb)- "Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?"
- "That's close enough," Wolfe said.
- "Not close enough for me. If you expect me to"