Meanings
cuffee1
nouncuffee (plural cuffees)
plural cuffees · alternative cuffy
- USinformalA black person.
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.
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
Cuffee2
Origin
cuffee · noun
From Cuffee, a personal name formerly common among black Americans.
Full word history & related roots →Cuffee · proper noun
- AkanKofi
- EnglishCuffee
Anglicized form of Akan Kofi, a personal name denoting a boy born on Friday.
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APA
cuffee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuffee
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“cuffee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuffee. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cuffee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuffee.
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