Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuffins
Literary usage of Cuffins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eccentric Personages by William Russell (1866)
"... We the cuffins Queer defy. We enjoy our peace and rest, To the field we are
not prest; When the taxes are increased, We are not a farthing cessed. ..."
2. Eccentric personages by William Russell (1864)
"... We the cuffins Queer defy. We enjoy our peace and rest, To the field we are
not prest; When the taxes are increased, We are not a farthing cessed. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... at the churchyard gates for the precedence of their own friend ; when the
cuffins have been thrown down, and even broken in the heat of the contention. ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1859)
"... when the possessor will not communicate them, and cuffins them up in the cases
of his library. It was facetiously observed, these collections are not ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"HAR.MAN, Cai-tat, sv 1857. Punch, 31 Jan., p. 49. ' Dear Bill, this Slone-jue.
In the day-rooms the cuffins [warders] we queer at our ease, ..."
6. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"... not locked up in a cell, [Notes] To an old hand like me it's a family hotel.
ii warders; bam- In the dayrooms the cuffins we queers at our ease. boozle ..."
7. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"In a ward with one's pals,* not locked up in a cell, To an old hand like me it's
a fam-ly1 -hotel. In the day-rooms the cuffins' we queer at our ease, ..."
8. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1866)
"... (who was it 1 I forget) advises all men, when they compose themselves to sleep
every night, to fancy themselves lying stiff and stark in their cuffins. ..."
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