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▪ I. cuffer1|ˈkʌfə(r)|
[f. cuff v.1 + -er1.]
One who cuffs; a boxer, fighter.
1662Gunning Lent Fast 173 That we..be [not] as such cuffers who fight as it were with their shadow. 1675Hobbes Odyssey xi. 287 Pollux good Cuffer, Castor Cavalier. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 213, I, like those Wrestlers and Cuffers, fight in very good earnest.
†b. humorously. The fist. Obs.
1694Echard Plautus 18 Mercury (Holding up his Fist). Rogue, look to yourself. Socia. You may act, Sir, as you please, as long as you are so plaguely arm'd with those Cuffers.
▪ II. cuffer2 dial. or slang.
Also cuffa.
[f. cuff v.1 4 + -er1.]
A yarn or story.
1887J. Farrell How He Died 65 You made me start to pitch you this most interesting cuffer. 1895P. H. Emerson Marsh Leaves 156 He'll spin up a rare cuffa along with old Jenks. 1899F. T. Bullen Idylls Sea xxv. 219 The time-honoured ‘cuffer’ or yarn was going its soothing round. 1923Blackw. Mag. May 661/1 There's plenty of cuffers, as they're called, about mermaids, phantom ships, dripping corpses, and such like. |