See also: Cuffee

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Etymology edit

A personal name formerly common among black Americans.

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cuffee (plural cuffees)

  1. (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.