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Cuffy

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A negro; both a generic word and proper name.

“Sambo and Cuffeyʹ expand under every sky.”—Mrs. Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.