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单词 cuffin
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cuffinn.

/ˈkʌfɪn/
Forms: Also 1500s cuffen, 1600s cuffing.
Etymology: ? connected with cuff n.3
Thieves' cant.
A man, fellow; chap; = cove n.2 queer cuffin: a churlish fellow; also, a justice.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > surliness > person
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queer cuffin1567
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surly-boots1710
Ursa Major1773
gruffy1802
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Giiii Yonder dwelleth a quyere cuffen... Yonder dwelleth a hoggeshe and choyrlyshe man.
1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. B3v The word Coue, or Cofe or Cuffin, signifies a Man, a Fellow.
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. F3v We are assaulted by a quire Cuffin.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Queere-cuffin, a Justice of Peace; also a Churl.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 315 He knows my gybe as well as the jark of e'er a queer cuffin in England.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. ii. 16 ‘What ho, my bob cuffins,’ cried the gipsy guide, ‘I have brought you a gentry cove.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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