cuff
意味
- (服・ワイシャツの)そで口;(ワイシャツの)カフス
- 《米》(ズボンのすその)折り返し(《英》turn-up)
- 《複数形で》手錠
- 平手打ち
- …を平手で打つ
例文
He made a splendid off-the-cuff speech.
彼は即席に立派な演説をした。
I'm not good at speaking off the cuff.
私は即興で話すのが苦手だ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).