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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir John Hayward and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, with clubs and clouted shoon,"[1]

• 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)