Synonyms
belt,
biff,
box,
buffet,
chop,
clip,
clout,
hit,
knock,
poke,
punch,
rap,
slap,
smack,
sockEtymology
() 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”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppjō(n) (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).