cuffing

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌfɪŋ/

cuffing

1. present participle and gerund of cuff

cuffing (plural cuffings)

1. The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
   • 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] ‎, New York: American Publishing Company:

     I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.

2. The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.

• cuffing season