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  • Really, we know there's a minority, and Anjem Coudary is amongst them, which is prone to violence, to extremism, obviously to bigotry and to intolerance, and they openly talk about "cuffers," which is word for non-Muslims, and it's ugly, and in mosques and all the other kind of places we regularly see this stuff.

    CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2007 2007

  • They will talk by the hour of trivialities about which they know nothing; they will spin interminable "cuffers" of debaucheries ashore all over the world; pick to pieces the reputation of all the officers with whom they have ever sailed; but of the glories, marvels, and mysteries of the mighty deep you will hear not a word.

    The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

  • But more, consider that racers strive to be distant from one another; cuffers, by the judges of the field, are not permitted to take hold; and none but wrestlers come up breast to breast, and clasp one another round the waist, and most of their turnings, liftings, lockings bring them very close.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • For here in the Pythian, as every exercise comes on, all the contenders are brought in, the boy wrestlers first, then the men, and the same method is observed when the cuffers and fencers are to exercise; but there the boys perform all first, and then the men.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • For here in the Pythian, as every exercise comes on, all the contenders are brought in, the boy wrestlers first, then the men, and the same method is observed when the cuffers and fencers are to exercise; but there the boys perform all first, and then the men.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • And Philinus said, it seems to me to be derived from [Greek omitted] the palm of the hand, for wrestlers use that part most, as cuffers do the [Greek omitted] fist; and hence both these sorts of exercises have their proper names, the one [Greek omitted] the other [Greek omitted].

    Symposiacs 2004

  • And Philinus said, it seems to me to be derived from [Greek omitted] the palm of the hand, for wrestlers use that part most, as cuffers do the [Greek omitted] fist; and hence both these sorts of exercises have their proper names, the one [Greek omitted] the other [Greek omitted].

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • But more, consider that racers strive to be distant from one another; cuffers, by the judges of the field, are not permitted to take hold; and none but wrestlers come up breast to breast, and clasp one another round the waist, and most of their turnings, liftings, lockings bring them very close.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • You'd sew it, and then they had cuffers that would cuff them.

    Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, December 12, 1979. Interview H-0106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

  • You'd sew it, and then they had cuffers that would cuff them.

    Oral History Interview with Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron, 1979 December 12. Interview H-106. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron 1979

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