| 词汇 | big as old cuffey |
| 词源 | big as old Cuffey. A historical expression describing some- one or something of great size. The eponym is Captain Paul Cuffey, a black ship captain of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who in about 1787 recruited free African Americans to settle in Sierra Leone and transported them there on his ship. |
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