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horsewhip
English
Etymology
horse +? whip
Noun
horsewhip (plural horsewhips)
- A whip for use on horses.
Hypernyms
- whip
Translations
Verb
horsewhip (third-person singular simple present horsewhips, present participle horsewhipping, simple past and past participle horsewhipped)
- (transitive) To flog or lash with a horsewhip.
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cuff
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)
- (obsolete) glove; mitten
- the end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist
- the end of a pants leg, folded up
- (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)
- (transitive) To furnish with cuffs.
- (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)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
- While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
- To buffet.
- cuffed by the gale
Translations
Noun
cuff (plural cuffs)
- A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
- many a bitter kick and cuff
Etymology 3
Noun
cuff (plural cuffs)
- (Scotland) The scruff of the neck.
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