cuffee
/ˈkʌfi/
cuffee noun: a black person.
Noun
cuffee (plural cuffees)
- A black person.
- The war had turned very bitter, and the days of young blacks, or cuffees as they were known, joining up just to escape the ghetto were over.2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 189
Proper noun capitalized: Cuffee
Cuffee (plural Cuffees)
- A surname from Akan.
Forms of cuffee
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cuffees |
| alternative form | cuffy |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Cuffees |
| alternative form | Coffey |
| alternative form | Cuffey |
| alternative form | Cuffy |
Origin of cuffee
From Cuffee, a personal name formerly common among black Americans.
Anglicized form of Akan Kofi, a personal name denoting a boy born on Friday.
Words that rhyme with cuffee
Questions about cuffee
- What does cuffee mean?
- Cuffee means a black person.
- What part of speech is cuffee?
- Cuffee can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cuffee?
- Cuffee is pronounced /ˈkʌfi/.
- What is the plural of cuffee?
- The plural of cuffee is cuffees.
Words near cuffee in the dictionary
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