CLUFF

Daily Word Quiz
 
BENJO
a) a coat
b) an amphetamine
c) a toilet
d) an arched eyebrow
 
Answer below.
  
Today's Featured Word
CLUFF
 
NOUN
1. a blow with the palm of the hand, esp. on the ear or cheek;
a cuff or slap ...1804 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
2. an idle, trifling person ...1825 Sc.
 
VERB
1. to strike with the palm of the hand, to cuff or slap
...1825 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
2. to laze, to sit idly by the fire ...1825 Sc.
 
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps from 'claw' (vb.) with echoic modification,
representing the 'buffing' sound
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1804 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Rob Lawson tuik part wi' peer Jenny
And brong snift'ring Gwordie a cluff..."
From: Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect
The Clay Daubin
By: Robert Anderson, 1804

 
Daily Word Quiz Answer
 
BENJO
c) a toilet ...1988 Aust. sl.