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Is cuff a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cuff is a Scrabble US word. The word cuff is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

C3U1F4F4

Is cuff a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cuff is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3U1F4F4

Is cuff a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word cuff is a Words With Friends word. The word cuff is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4U2F4F4

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4-letter words (1 found)

CUFF,

2-letter words (1 found)

FU,

You can make 2 words from cuff according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cuff

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Definitions and meaning of cuff

cuff

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʌf/
  • Rhymes: -ʌf

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 *kupjō (“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 when folded up.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To furnish with cuffs.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • cufflinks
  • turnup
  • off-the-cuff
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Etymology 2

Clipping of handcuff.

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

  1. (informal, plural only) A handcuff.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To handcuff.
Translations

Etymology 3

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.

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.
  2. (intransitive) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
  3. To buffet.
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Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

  1. A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

cuff (plural cuffs)

  1. (Scotland) The scruff of the neck.

Source: wiktionary.org