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Hemming vs Cuffing - What's the difference?

hemming | cuffing |

As a proper noun hemming

is .

As a verb cuffing is

.

As a noun cuffing is

the act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.

hemming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
  • * 1847 , The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review (page 285)
    • Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them

    cuffing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
  • * (Mark Twain), Following the Equator
    • I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.