buff
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
graffiti
rail-transport
railways
transport
video-games
visual-arts
Etymology: From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).
Inflected forms:
form: buffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buffer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more buff
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: buffest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most buff
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: buffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]
gloss: A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A brownish yellow colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203,
[…] a Visage rough,
Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.
His face changed from tan to buff.
gloss: A military coat made of buff leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A diuell in an euerlaſting garment hath him ; / On whoſe hard heart is button’d vp with ſteele : / A Feind, a Fairie, pittileſſe and ruffe : / A Wolfe, nay worſe, a fellow all in buffe […]
gloss: A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.
gloss: A change introduced in a patch that makes a character, item, or attack stronger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!
gloss: Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The bare skin.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: to strip to the buff
To be in buff, is equivalent to being naked.
Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.
gloss: The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014,
Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick.
gloss: Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
pos: adj
gloss: Unusually muscular.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
gloss: Physically attractive.
pos: adj
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: That's right: I'm taking driver's ed next semester. Hiring an interpreter for CHS and the deaf school outta my own hefty pockets. You're welcome. Oh, and I'm going to get really skinny and buff. All slim like a swimsuit model.
gloss: To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
pos: verb
examples: He was already buffing the car's hubs.
gloss: To make a character or an item stronger.
pos: verb
examples: The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.
gloss: To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
pos: verb
examples: "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" [...] They attempted to transfer her to urology by modifying her chart (buffing it) to request urine tests, but the doctors in urology sent (bounced) her back.
The implication of such an action is an invitation to buff the chart. The medical records department could have prevented the falsification by sending a copy of the chart to the attorney at the same time that they notified the hospital physician of the attorney's request for the chart.
gloss: To remove (graffiti), particularly when done by someone who is not a graffiti writer.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To strip to the bare skin.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
Derived words: buff-banded thicketbird
buff-bellied pipit
buff-breasted sandpiper
buff coat
buffery
buffhood
buffish
buffism
buff jerkin
buff nor stye
Buff Point
buff-tailed bumblebee
buffware
buffy
in the buff
iron buff
railbuff
railway buff
buff-tip moth
buffly
buffster
buffable
buff down
buff out
buff the muffin
buff up
buff wheel
unbuffed
rebuff
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: mejora
lang: Spanish
word: beneficio
lang: Spanish
word: bruñido
lang: Spanish
word: bruñimiento
lang: Spanish
word: bruñidura