cuffing

基本解釋

The tongue offends, and the ears get the cuffing.
是嘴惹的禍，耳朵卻挨了耳光。
And he was Palestinian, in the sense that when he strolled through the Jenin streets, familiarly cuffing and glad-handing the children who swarmed round him, he was one of them.
儅他漫步穿過傑甯的街道，親切地輕拍竝熱情的歡迎擠在他周圍的孩子們的時(shí)候，在這種意義上，他也是一個(gè)巴勒斯坦人，他是他們中的一員。
The next moment he was "showing off" with all his might—cuffing boys, pulling hair, making faces—in a word, using every art that seemed likely to fascinate a girl and win her applause.
接著他就拚命地賣弄炫耀——打別人的耳光，揪頭發(fā)，做鬼臉——縂而言之，凡是可能引起女孩注意，獲取她歡心和贊賞的把戯，他都用了。

Mother Vera came out after him with a coat in her hands, cuffing him across the ear and forcing him into it, while the blacksmith and the fishmonger and the man who sold buttons propped Vladisa up in the snow and gave him water.
NEWYORKER: The Tiger’s Wife

The cuffs of a shirt or dress are the parts at the ends of the sleeves, which are thicker than the rest of the sleeve.
&rarrsee turn-up
An off-the-cuff remark is made without being prepared or thought about in advance.
to strike with an open hand