cuff
n. countablen. the folded or turned-back part of a shirt sleeve at the wrist.
n. the lower edge of a sleeve, typically turned back to expose the inner lining.
He rolled up his shirt cuffs.
She adjusted her cuffs before shaking hands with the manager.
The tailor stitched the cuffs with precision, ensuring the buttons aligned perfectly with the holes.
From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
Clipping of handcuff.
1520, “to hit”, apparently of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian kuffa (“to push, shove”) or Swedish kuffa (“to knock, thrust, strike”), from the Proto-Germanic base skuf- (skuƀ), from Proto-Indo-European skewbʰ-, see also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”). Germanic cognates include Low German kuffen (“to box the ears”), German kuffen (“to thrash”). More at scuff, shove, scuffle.