"cuff on the ear" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cuffs on the ear [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|cuffs on the ear}} cuff on the ear (plural cuffs on the ear)
  1. A box on the ear; a painful smack on the side of the head. Synonyms: slap in the face Translations (smack on the side of the head): muilpeer (Dutch), oorvijg (Dutch), draai om de oren (Dutch), korvapuusti (Finnish), Maulschelle (German), Ohrfeige (German), Backpfeife [feminine] (German), bofetada [feminine] (Spanish), bofetón [masculine] (Spanish), cachetada [Latin-America, feminine] (Spanish), torta [Spain, feminine] (Spanish), örfil [common-gender] (Swedish), bonclust [feminine, masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-cuff_on_the_ear-en-noun-uGEONRF3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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