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cuffy

cuffy is the alternative form of cuffee.

Meaning of cuffee

Noun

cuffee (plural cuffees)

  1. (US, informal) 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Cuffy

Cuffy (plural Cuffys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of cuffy

Noun
pluralcuffies
Proper noun
pluralCuffys

Origin of cuffy

Variant of Cuffee.

Questions about cuffy

What does cuffy mean?
Cuffy means a surname.
What is cuffy the alternative form of?
Cuffy is the alternative form of cuffee.
What part of speech is cuffy?
Cuffy is a proper noun.

Words near cuffy in the dictionary

  1. cuffs on the ear
  2. cuffs out
  3. cuffs up
  4. cuffuffle
  5. cuffuffles
  6. cuffy
  7. Cuffys
  8. Cufic
  9. cufraneb
  10. cufuffle
  11. cufuffles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuffy (page history and authors); Cuffy (page history and authors); cuffee (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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