Drub vs Cuff - What's the difference?
drub | cuff | Related terms |
to beat (someone or something) with a stick
to forcefully teach something
to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush
to criticize harshly; to excoriate
(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
Drub is a related term of cuff.
As verbs the difference between drub and cuff
is that drub is to beat (someone or something) with a stick while 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 noun cuff is
(obsolete) glove; mitten or cuff can be a blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.drub
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*cuff
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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 .