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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