From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
Meanings
(obsolete) Glove; mitten
The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
The end of a pants leg when folded up.
A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.
pl mankiet (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · nb mansjett (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · fi hihansuu (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · pl mankiet (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · hu mandzsetta (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ru обшла́г (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Hosenaufschlag (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · fr manchette (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · fi lahkeenkäänne (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · cmn 袖口 (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Aufschlag (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · ms cekak (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · mk манже́тна (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · es bajo (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · es vuelta (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · egl pulsén (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ro margine (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · pt barra (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · nl voormouw (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · tr manşet (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Bündchen (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · el ρεβέρ (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · it orlo (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · ja 袖口 (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · be абшэ́ўка (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Hemdmanschette (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · uk обшла́г (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · pt punho (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ru манже́та (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · es puño (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · es bastilla (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · bg манше́т (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · be манжэ́та (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · egl pulsèin (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · mk манже́тна (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · nv látsíín náztʼiʼí (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · cs manžeta (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ca bocamàniga (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · nl manchet (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ru отворо́т (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · ca punyet (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · bg манше́т (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · fi kalvosin (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ko 커프스 (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · fr revers (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · ota پاچه (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · de Manschette (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · sv manschett (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Luftmanschette (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · tl punyos (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · fi housunkäänne (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · gd bann-dùirn (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · uk манже́та (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ro manșetă (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · es ruedo (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Umschlag (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · eo manumo (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · he חֵפֶת (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · fi upslaaki (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · ko 수구 (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · gl puño (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Ärmelaufschlag (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · id manset (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ga cufa (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · bg ръкавела (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · rup mãnichetã (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · nn mansjett (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · it polsino (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · sk manžeta (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ro manșetă (the end of a pants leg, folded up) · el μανσέτα (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · da manchet (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · de Ärmelbündchen (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · be абшла́г (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · egl peramàn (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist) · ja カフ (the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist)
From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
(slang, transitive) To enter into a committed romantic relationship with (someone).
This fr how it be, never cuffing another Latina woman from New York ever again💀 2023 April 3, @SoraWasntHere, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
Whenever one of my boys cuffs a girl from the club, all I can do is chuckle and shake my head. We all know how it ends. 2024 May 23, @CzarCule, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
cuffing season
If your promiscuous, men who know females just date around could take advantage of that, plus a lot wouldn't want to cuff a female they know isn't doing pure things. 2023 December 14, u/No-Spot2923, “What exactly makes a woman only good enough for sex and flings but not actual commitment?”, in Reddit, r/dating_advice, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
After my last relationship I was so amped to be happy and single, but it's funny how when you are that it's as if potential SOs gravitate even more. It wasn't too long of that before I naturally got cuffed and I'm happy in a relationship but got damn I do wish I had more time happy and single 2024 March 11, u/MobyDukakis, “Being happy single is not celebrated half as much as being a happy couple.”, in Reddit, r/Showerthoughts, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.
Meanings
A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
The Sarazin sore daunted with the buffe / Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quyteth cuff with cuff: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17:
many a bitter kick and cuff 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base *skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.
Meanings
(transitive) To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again. c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
[They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food. 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
(intransitive) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport. 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
To buffet.
cuffed by the gale 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24:
mk плеснува (To hit, as a reproach) · fi läimäyttää (To hit, as a reproach) · de ohrfeigen (To hit, as a reproach) · de einen Klaps geben (To hit, as a reproach) · mk удира шлаканица (To hit, as a reproach) · es abofetear (To hit, as a reproach) · de abfotzen (To hit, as a reproach) · fr souffleter (To hit, as a reproach) · bg пляскам (To hit, as a reproach) · fr gifler (To hit, as a reproach) · cy cernodio (To hit, as a reproach)