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発音

• IPA: /nʌf/
• 韻: -ʌf
• Homophone: 'nuff

名詞

knuff (plural knuffs)

1. (obsolete) A lout, rogue or rustic person.

   Synonyms: bumpkin, yokel; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin

   • (Can we date this quote?), Unknown, (Please provide the book title or journal name); quoted in Mary Anne Martha Hoppus, “The Rebellions of the Poor Commons”, in Landholding in England, London: A. C. Fifield, 1908, page 90:

     The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, with clubs and clouted shoon

     NB: History of England (1893) by James Anthony Froude uses the term "country gruffs" instead.

別の表記

• gnuff

参照

• “knuff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.