buff

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /bʌf/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /bɐf/ (Northern England) IPA(key): /bʊf/ Rhymes: -ʌf === Etymology 1 === From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”). ==== Noun ==== buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs) Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. A brownish yellow colour. 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203,[1] […] a Visage rough, Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff. A military coat made of buff leather. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject. Synonyms: enthusiast, aficionado, amateur; see also Thesaurus:fan (video games) A change introduced in a patch that makes a character, item, or attack stronger. Antonym: nerf (video games, roleplaying games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger. Synonym: revamp Antonyms: debuff, nerf (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition. (colloquial) The bare skin. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits. 2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014,[5] Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== buff (comparative buffer or more buff, superlative buffest or most buff) Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow. (originally bodybuilding, colloquial) Unusually muscular. Synonyms: buffed, buffed out (MLE slang) Physically attractive. ===== Derived terms ===== buff-tip moth buffly buffster ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed) To polish and make shiny by rubbing. Synonyms: wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnish (video games, roleplaying games) To make a character or an item stronger. Antonyms: debuff, nerf (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner. (graffiti slang) To remove (graffiti), particularly when done by someone who is not a graffiti writer. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (slang, transitive, archaic) To strip to the bare skin. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== Appendix:Colors === Etymology 2 === From Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”). ==== Verb ==== buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed) To strike. ==== Noun ==== buff (plural buffs) (obsolete) A strike; a blow. ===== Derived terms ===== blind man's buff counterbuff rebuff === Etymology 3 === From Middle English buffen (“to stutter, stammer”), from Old English byffan (“to mumble, mutter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bubjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to fear, to be afraid”). More at bive (“tremble, shake”) and bever. ==== Verb ==== buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed) (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutter === Etymology 4 === Clipping of buffalo. ==== Noun ==== buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs) (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo. === Etymology 5 === ==== Noun ==== buff (plural buffs) (uncommon) Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”). 1899, Selected Lives (orig. by Plutarch), page 317: For they had helmets on their heads, fashioned like wild beast's necks, and strange beavers or buffs to the same, and wore on their helmets great high plumes of feathers, as they had been wings : […] == Icelandic == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Danish bøf, a short form of Danish bøfsteg, from English beefsteak. The confectionary meaning also exists in Danish. ==== Noun ==== buff n (genitive singular buffs, nominative plural buff) beefsteak a chocolate-covered, marshmallow-creme-filled confectionary ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== hakkabuff (“beef patty”) === Etymology 2 === A generic trademark from the brand name Buff, whose bandanas were popularized by the Survivor TV series. ==== Noun ==== buff n (genitive singular buffs, nominative plural buff) a multifunctional neck gaiter; a tubular bandana (used to keep one's head or neck warm during outdoor activities) ===== Declension ===== ==== See also ==== lambhúshetta (“balaclava”)