| 词汇 | cuff |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： 1. cuff (n.) mid-14c., cuffe "hand covering," perhaps somehow from M.L. cuffia "head covering," of uncertain origin. Sense of "band around the sleeve" is first attested 1520s; sense of "hem of trousers" is 1911. Off the cuff "extemporaneously" is 1938 Amer.Eng. colloquial, suggesting an actor or speaker reading from notes jotted on his shirt sleeves rather than learned lines. Cuff links is from 1897. 2. cuff (v.) "hit," 1530, perhaps from Sw. kuffa "to thrust, push." |
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