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Brewer's: Cuffy
A negro; both a generic word and proper name.
“Sambo and Cuffey expand under every sky.” —Mrs. Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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