'nuff

[nuhf]

noun

Informal.

1. shortened form of enough.

Word History and Origins

Origin of 'nuff¹

An Americanism dating to 1770–80; by shortening and respelling

Example Sentences

As one reader put it, “Off. White carpet. ’nuff said.”

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Tina got her sea legs as a songwriter early in the 1970s, working on her own and collaborating with such writers as Leon Ware, a Motown vet who co-wrote much of 1971’s “‘Nuff Said,” the LP that was the sequel to “Proud Mary.”

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No reference is too niche, whether it’s an alternative version of Berry Gordy’s 1985 karate comedy, “The Last Dragon,” that is sympathetic to the film’s bad guy, Sho’nuff, or a take on Washington, D.C.’s go-go music.

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The way that Bird and Dizzy play “Shaw ’Nuff,” they’re so accurate it almost sounds like one person playing.

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As Stan Lee liked to say, “‘Nuff said!”

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