cuffee
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See also: Cuffee
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A personal name formerly common among black Americans.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cuffee (plural cuffees)
- (US, informal) A black person.
- 2004, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home […] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 189:
- 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.
References[edit]
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary: listed under cove.