what does "cuffin" mean?  slang used by british navy seamen in 1700s.

Dear williamth-ga;

Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question. Simply
put, ?cuffin? was 1700?s slang (or perhaps street slang, as we?d know
it today) for ?a man?. It would have been used much the same was as
people now use the word ?dude? or in the 1940?s and 50?s used the word
?cat?.

Dictionary of Thieving Slang, 1737
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict2/C/CUFFIN.html



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Dictionary of Thieving Slang, 1737
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict2/C/CUFFIN.html



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