cuffee
See also: Cuffee
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editA personal name formerly common among black Americans.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuffee (plural cuffees)
- (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.