CuffeeCuffyn.
/ˈkʌfi/ U.S. colloquial.
1. A black person; also used as a generic name. Now historical (offensive).
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]
AfriceOE
MoorOE
EthiopOE
blomana1225
Ethiopiana1325
blue mana1387
Moriana1387
black mana1398
blackamoor1525
black Morian1526
black boy1530
molen1538
Nigro1548
Nigrite1554
Negro1555
neger1568
nigger1577
blackfellow1598
Kaffir1607
black1614
thick-lipsa1616
Hubsheea1627
black African1633
blackface1704
sambo1704
Cuffee1713
Nigritian1738
fellow1753
Cuff1755
blacky1759
mungo1768
Quashie1774
darkie?1775
snowball1785
blue skin1788
Moriscan1794
sooterkin1821
nigc1832
tar-brush1835–40
Jim Crow1838
sooty1838
mokec1847
dinge1848
monkey1849
Siddi1849
dark1853
nigre1853
Negroid1860
kink1865
Sam1867
Rastus1882
schvartze1886
race man1896
possum1900
shine1908
jigaboo1909
smoke1913
golliwog1916
jazzbo1918
boogie1923
jig1924
melanoderm1924
spade1928
jit1931
Zulu1931
eight ball1932
Afro1942
nigra1944
spook1945
munt1948
Tom1956
boot1957
soul brother1957
nig-nog1959
member1962
pork chop1963
splib1964
blood1965
non-voter1966
moolinyan1967
Oreo1968
boogaloo1972
pongo1972
moolie1988
1713 S. Sewall Diary 28 May (1879) II. 386 I press'd him, and came away with some hope; obliged Cuffee to call for him.
1837 Southern Lit. Messenger Jan. 86/1 The song ceased, and the cuffee advanced in silence.
1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 74 Jest as I was a thinking this, the cuffy come into the room.
1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 79 Praps I'm bearin down too hard upon Cuffy.
1959 A. Salkey Quality of Violence iv. 65 A friend to Boss-man and cuffee.
2. A black bear.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > black bear
Cuff1811
cinnamon bear1823
Cuffee1824
cinnamon1855
muskwa1861
1824 J. Doddridge Notes Virginia & Pennsylv. 21 When the bear approached him, he sprang out and hallooed at him; but cuffee..jumped at him with mouth wide open.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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