different between cuff vs swat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

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 *kupj? (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

1. (obsolete) glove; mitten
2. the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
3. the end of a pants leg, folded up
4. (informal, plural only) handcuffs

Derived terms

• shoot one's cuffs

Related terms

• cufflinks
• turnup
• off-the-cuff

Translations

Verb

cuff (third-person singular simple present cuffs, present participle cuffing, simple past and past participle cuffed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with cuffs.
2. (transitive) To handcuff.

Translations

Etymology 2

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- (sku?), from Proto-Indo-European *skewb?-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skuba? (“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.

Verb

cuff (third-person singular simple present cuffs, present participle cuffing, simple past and past participle cuffed)

1. (transitive) To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
   • [They] with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuff'd the tender chickens from their food.

2. (intransitive) To fight; to scuffle; to box.

   • While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.

3. To buffet.

   • cuffed by the gale

Translations

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

1. A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
   • many a bitter kick and cuff

Etymology 3

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

1. (Scotland) The scruff of the neck.

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sw?t/, /sw?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Alteration of squat.

Verb

swat (third-person singular simple present swats, present participle swatting, simple past and past participle swatted)

1. (transitive) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.

   He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom.

   The cat swatted at the feather.

   • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]

     During my first day in the woods, Raoul, the big alpha male of Rambo II, opened wide to show me his dagger-sharp canines, then sauntered by and swatted my calf with a stick—letting me know my place in the social order. (Low.)

Translations

Noun

swat (plural swats)

1. A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
2. Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution.

Translations

See also

• flyswatter

Etymology 2

See SWAT.

Verb

swat (third-person singular simple present swats, present participle swatting, simple past and past participle swatted)

1. (slang) To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone).
   • 2017, Elizabeth Heiter, Stalked, MIRA (?ISBN):

     “You've just been swatted.” “What?” Sophia asked. “A spoofed call to police, claiming an emergency, to get a SWAT response,” Evelyn said. Realizing why the SWAT officer had noticed the controller, she guessed, […]

References

Anagrams

• 'twas, ATWS, AWTs, TAWS, TWAs, WSTA, sawt, staw, taws, was't, wast, wats

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French soit (“thus”).

Conjunction

swat

1. or

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa?t/

Noun

swat

1. plural of sawt

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-. Cognate with Old Saxon swêt, Old High German sweiz, Old Norse sveiti (“sweat, blood”). The Indo-European root also gave Latin sudor, Sanskrit Sanskrit ????? (sveda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw??t/

Noun

sw?t m or n

1. sweat
2. used of other moisture that comes from the body, especially blood

Declension

Derived terms

• sw?tan (“to sweat”)
• sw?ti? (“sweaty”)
• sw?tþ?rel (“a pore”)

Descendants

• English: swate, swote, swot, swete, swet
  • English: sweat

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *svat?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sfat/

Noun

swat m pers (feminine swatka)

1. A matchmaker.
2. The father of one's child-in-law.

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) swach m pers, swacha f, swachna f, swatanie n (the act of matchmaking)
• (verb) swata? (to matchmake)

Further reading

• swat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• swat in Polish dictionaries at PWN