Cuffs

Definition: Cuffs

Cuffs

Noun

1. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cuffs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Cuffs

Crosswords: Cuffs

I don't like your cuffs!I don't like your cuffs! (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

Collars and Cuffs (1923)

A Pair of Cuffs (1914)

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Books

• "One pair of cuffs and a stocking and a half" : the story of a village school (reference)

• Crocheting Collars, Cuffs, and Yokes (reference)

• Lace Cuffs and Leather Aprons: Popular Struggles in the Federalist Era, 1783-1800, (reference)

• Off the Cuffs (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Mrs. Herbster turns collars and cuffs on her husbands shirts. In the Herbster household clothes are mended and made over to last as long as possible. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He gazed upon and adored the things which she wore, her knot of ribbon, her gloves, her cuffs, her slippers, as sacred objects of which he was master.

But Mr Gleeson had round shiny cuffs and clean white wrists and fattish white hands and the nails of them were long and pointed.

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Ending with "cuffs": leg-cuffs.

Arabic 

‏غل قيد (handcuffs, manacles). (various references)

Chinese 

袖口 (Cuff, Wristband). (various references)

Danish

presse til stivning af flipper og manchetter paa skjorter (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references)

Dutch

pers voor het stijven van boorden en manchetten van overhemden (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references)

French

menottes. (various references)

German

Manschetten (wristbands). (various references)

Greek 

μανικέτi. (various references)

Hungarian

rojtos mandzsetták (frayed cuffs), nadrághajtóka (cuffs of trousers), nadrágfelhajtás (cuffs of trousers), hitelbe kap pénzt (to get money on the cuffs), felírásra kap hitelt (to get money on the cuffs). (various references)

Italian

pressa che serve ad inamidare i colli e i polsini delle camicie (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

折り�"し (chorus, flap, lapel, refrain, repetition), カバー曲 (black coffee, Cabala, cafe, cafe a la creme, cafe au lait, cafe bar, cafe cabaret, cafe royal, cafeteria, caffeine, capital, cappuccino, capriccio, capsule, capsule hotel, cavalier, coupler, coverage, cub, cub scout, cuff links, expresso coffee, Kabbalah, Kabul, Neapolitan coffee, Qabalah, remake of another artist's song, sidewalk cafe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おりかえし (chorus, flap, lapel, refrain, repetition), カフス . (various references)

Korean 

�"목 (Cuff). (various references)

Pig Latin

uffscay

Portuguese

algemas (bracelets, handcuffs). (various references)

Spanish

prensa para almidonar los cuellos y los puños de las camisas (press for starching the collars and cuffs of shirts). (various references)

Swedish

manschetter. (various references)

Ukrainian

наручники (bracelets, manacle, nipper, nippers, shackles). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "cuffs": fisticuffs, handcuffs, scuffs, uncuffs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cuffs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acuff, Caffa, ccuf, ceff, cff, cifs, corff, couff, cpff, cruff, cuf, cufa, Cuffe, Cuffy, cuft, cuifs, curff, shuffs. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scuff.

-1 letter: cuff.

-3 letters: us.

+1 letter: chuffs, scruff, scuffs.

+2 letters: cutoffs, offcuts, scruffs, scruffy, scuffed, scuffle, suffice, uncuffs.

+3 letters: chuffest, cuffless, scuffing, scuffled, scuffler, scuffles, sufficed, sufficer, suffices.

+4 letters: calctuffs, chauffers, chuffiest, coiffeurs, coiffeuse, coiffures, crossruff, cufflinks, fullfaces, handcuffs, officious, scruffier, scruffily, scufflers, scuffling, sufficers, sufficing, suffocate, uncoffins.

+5 letters: affluences, chauffeurs, coiffeuses, creampuffs, crossruffs, effluences, fisticuffs, fructifies, rechauffes, scruffiest, sufferance, sufficient, suffocated, suffocates, tuffaceous.