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cuffer n also cuff EDD cuff v 4 (2): cuffer 'a tale, a yarn'
(Austr); 6 sb 'a lie'; O Sup2 ~ sb2 (1887).
1 A tale or yarn.
1924 ENGLAND 314 ~
A lie; a tall story. 1961 Evening Telegram 28 Apr, p. 7 My conversations
frequently (from lifelong habit) 'slewed into cuffers' on family and local traditions. T
31/5-64 I'm going to tell you a little cuffer now about un. T 70-64 That's a great
cuffer, isn't it? That's a great story. 1966 FARIS 28 The 'cuffers' (items of
exaggeration on past common knowledge) ... are most commonly about the sea, sea exploits
and sea storms. 1966 SCAMMELL 105-6 "Tommy Decker's Venture": I chats with Tom a minute,
he likes a 'cuffer' too. / And then he ups and tells me what's makin' of him blue.
2 A friendly chat; an exchange of reminiscences; a gathering
for this purpose; freq in phr have a cuffer.
1937 DEVINE 17
~ a meeting of fishermen or seamen, generally aboard a ship, to have a friendly chat or
'swap yarns.' P 10-57 ~ conversation, usually recalling old times. T 194/7-65 Every
night there'd be a cuffer going off, in the saloon. P 207-66 The two truck drivers
stopped to have a cuffer. P 103-67 A cuff [is] a chat. 1972 BROWN 137 They'll have a
chance to exchange 'cuffers' with the men on the Stephano.
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