buffest
superlative form of buff: most buff
• buffets
Source: Wiktionary
Buff, n. Etym: [OE. buff, buffe, buff, buffalo, F. buffle buffalo. See Buffalo.]
1. A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. "A suit of buff." Shak.
2. The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.
3. A military coat, made of buff leather. Shak.
4. (Med.)
Definition: The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
5. (Mech.)
Definition: A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
6. The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] To be in buff is equivalent to being naked. Wright.
Buff, a.
1. Made of buff leather. Goldsmith.
2. Of the color of buff. Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering.
– Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares.
– Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.
Buff, v. t.
Definition: To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
Buff, v. t. Etym: [OF. bufer to cuff, buffet. See Buffet a blow.]
Definition: To strike. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Buff, n. Etym: [See Buffet.]
Definition: A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff." Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent That made him reel. Spenser.
Buff, a. Etym: [Of uncertain etymol.]
Definition: Firm; sturdy. And for the good old cause stood buff, 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff. Hudibras.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 November 2024
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