[f. CUFF v.1 + -ER1.] One who cuffs; a boxer, fighter.
1662. Gunning, Lent Fast, 173. That we … be [not] as such cuffers who fight as it were with their shadow.
1675. Hobbes, Odyssey, XI. 287. Pollux good Cuffer, Castor Cavalier.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr. (ed. 2), II. 213. But, like those Wrestlers and Cuffers, fight in very good earnest.
† b. humorously. The fist. Obs.
1694. Echard, Plautus, 18. Mercury (Holding up his Fist). Rogue, look to yourself. Socia. You may act, Sir, as you please, as long as you are so plaguely arm’d with those Cuffers.
