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語源

A personal name formerly common among black Americans.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkʌfi/
• 韻: -ʌfi

名詞

cuffee (plural cuffees)

1. (US, informal) A black person.
   • 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: 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.

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary: listed under cove.