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Word entry · 4 letters

cuff

Best crossword clue

"Sleeve end"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /kʌf/Part of speech verb, nounSorted cffuStarts with CEnds with F1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • cuffing season
  • This fr how it be, never cuffing another Latina woman from New York ever again💀
  • 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.

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