Tuff vs Cuff - What's the difference?
tuff | cuff |
older and simplified spelling of tough
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(rock) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 9n:
(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
As nouns the difference between tuff and cuff
is that tuff is (rock) a light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel while cuff is (obsolete) glove; mitten or cuff can be a blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.As an adjective tuff
is older and simplified spelling of tough.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.tuff
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Adjective
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citation, genre=Language Arts , publisher=Routledge , isbn=9780415286367 , page=96 , passage=It was rave reviewed in the Caribbean Times as 'the ruffest, tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'. }}
citation, genre= , publisher=Penguin , isbn=9780452287617 , page=36 , passage=TUFF METER }}
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References
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, tuff (wikipedia tuff)Etymology 2
From (etyl) tuffe, (tuf), from (etyl) tufo, from (etyl) .Noun
- This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff ’.
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 .