knuff

Compare Old English cnof (“a churl”).

• IPA^(key): /nʌf/
• Rhymes: -ʌf
• Homophone: 'nuff

knuff (plural knuffs)

1. (obsolete) A lout, rogue or rustic person.

   Synonyms: bumpkin, yokel; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin

   • (Can we date this quote?), Unknown, (Please provide the book title or journal name); quoted in Mary Anne Martha Hoppus, “The Rebellions of the Poor Commons”, in Landholding in England, London: A. C. Fifield, 1908, page 90:

     The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, with clubs and clouted shoon

     NB: History of England (1893) by James Anthony Froude uses the term "country gruffs" instead.

• gnuff

• “knuff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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knuff

1. singular imperative of knuffen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of knuffen

knuff c

1. a push, a shove

   Han fick en knuff i ryggen

   He got pushed in the back

Would commonly be understood as a push with the hands without further context, though it can also mean pushing with other body parts. Same intuition as English push.

• knuffa (“to push, to shove”)

• puff

• knuff in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• knuff in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)