Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuffin
Literary usage of Cuffin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"Queer cuffin. English and Scottish gipsy slang—a justice of the peace. This phrase
is of venerable antiquity, and is a relic of the Druidical times when the ..."
2. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut by Sarah Johnson Prichard (1896)
"Edward cuffin Lewis, son of John and Mary Lewis, was born at Welsh Pool, North
Wales, September 23, 1826. He came to America with his parents in 1831, ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"He knows my gybe [pass] as well as the jark [seal] of e'er a QUEER cuffin [justice
of peace] in England." 1621. EGAS, Life in London, n. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"cuffin is synonymous with cofe, cove. Queer money (thieves), spurious coin.
That town had been worked with a rush by a gang and $2o,ooo in the queer money ..."
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