nuff, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nuff adj.

[mis-sp.]

enough, plenty, abundant; usu. as nuff ced phr.

1871		C.G. Leland ‘Breitmann at a Picnic’ in Hans Breitmann in Europe 283: Dey sphend ’nuff money to last deir life.
1912		C. McKay ‘Bumming’ Constab Ballads 35: I proud ’nuff o me uniform / Not ever to be a rummy.
1916		J.G. Cruickshank Black Talk 30: Nuff-nuff is plenty-plenty.
1938		R. Chandler ‘King in Yellow’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 89: Nuff talk, George.
1942		L. Bennett ‘Storm Tonic’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 17: Nuff-nuff cultivation blow dung.
1951		M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 149: Sure ’nuff Logan had left.
1967		C. Himes ‘Tang’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 407: You can be back in an hour with ’nuff bread so we can scoff.
1980		M. Thelwell Harder They Come 367: ‘How much time I help you, Sidney?’ ‘Nuff time, sah.’.
1998		Source Oct. 232: Capri’s return to the scene should make nuff noise on the streets.
2003		BlazinParadise ‘Blazing Squad Language’ 🌐 Nuff Love – Lots of love.
2006		G. Malkani Londonstani (2007) 10: Dat’s nuff batterings you given him. [Ibid.] 178: I heard dey got nuff fit ladies goin dere.
2016		A. Wheatle Crongton Knights 17: My fam is giving me nuff grief about it.

nuffness (n.)

(W.I.) showiness, ostentation, vulgarity, precocity.

1979

cited in Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage (1996).

get one’s nuff (v.) (also have one’s nuff)

(orig. milit.) to be drunk.

1890–1904

nuff respect

(orig. W.I.) a general phr. of approval/admiration.

1993		Dr Dre ‘Stranded on Death Row’ 🎵 So remember I go hardcore, and slam Nuff respect like a sensei.
1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 45: Nuff respec’.