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cuffings

/ˈkʌfɪŋz/

cuffings is the plural of cuffing.

Meaning of cuffing

Noun

cuffing (countable and uncountable, plural cuffings)

  1. The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
    • I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company
  2. The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.

Questions about cuffings

What is cuffings the plural of?
Cuffings is the plural of cuffing.
How do you pronounce cuffings?
Cuffings is pronounced /ˈkʌfɪŋz/.

Words near cuffings in the dictionary

  1. cuffing
  2. cuffing out
  3. cuffing season
  4. cuffing seasons
  5. cuffing up
  6. cuffings
  7. cuffins
  8. cuffless
  9. cufflessness
  10. Cuffley
  11. cufflike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuffings (page history and authors); cuffing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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