cuffing
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]cuffing
- present participle and gerund of cuff
Noun
[edit]cuffing (countable and uncountable, plural cuffings)
- The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
- 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] [1], New York: American Publishing Company:
- 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.
- The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.