buffet, counter, sideboard
(noun) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
buffet
(noun) a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves
buffet, buff
(verb) strike, beat repeatedly; “The wind buffeted him”
buffet, knock about, batter
(verb) strike against forcefully; “Winds buffeted the tent”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
buffet (plural buffets)
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
Synonyms: sideboard, smorgasbord, cupboard (obsolete)
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
Synonyms: buffet meal, smorgasbord
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
buffet (plural buffets)
A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
Synonyms: blow, collision (by any solid object), cuff (with the hand)
buffet (third-person singular simple present buffets, present participle buffetting or buffeting, simple past and past participle buffetted or buffeted)
(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
(transitive, figurative) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
buffet (plural buffets)
A low stool; a hassock.
Source: Wiktionary
Buf*fet", n. Etym: [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.]
1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.
2. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
Buf"fet, n. Etym: [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon]
1. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.
2. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.
3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst.
Buf"fet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.] Etym: [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the preceding noun.]
1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. They spit in his face and buffeted him. Matt. xxvi. 67.
2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black.
3. Etym: [Cf. Buffer.]
Definition: To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Buf"fet, v. i.
1. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. Shak.
2. To make one's way by blows or struggling. Strove to buffet to land in vain. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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