buffet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.
Inflected forms:
form: buffets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beaufet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: buffets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buffeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buffetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: buffeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buffeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: buffetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: buffetted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
pos: noun
examples: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
gloss: Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
pos: noun
examples: We'll be serving supper buffet style.
"We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe."
gloss: A small low stool; a hassock.
pos: noun
gloss: To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They spit in his face and buffeted him.
gloss: To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Is Burns obscure because he was gay and therefore ignorable until the Gay Rights Movement began? Or does he largely deserve his neglect? An answer requires that one examine not only Burns' books, but also the critical environment in which he was much buffeted — which, we are told, drove him to an early grave.
Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
gloss: To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
pos: verb
examples: to buffet the billows
The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
[...] I buffetted heat and mosquetoes, and got the hay all up [...]
You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world—
Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.
gloss: To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
pos: verb
gloss: To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Again the chirpy tone did nothing to pacify the woman holding on to her ankles. Soon Zoe was buffeting back and forward through the hole.
Derived words: autobuffet
buffet bowling
buffet car
buffeteria
finger buffet
fork buffet
scatter buffet
tea buffet
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ֆուրշետ
roman: furšet
lang: Belarusian
word: шве́дскі стол
roman: švjédski stol
lang: Bulgarian
word: бюфе́т
roman: bjufét
lang: Bulgarian
word: шве́дска ма́са
roman: švédska mása
lang: Catalan
word: bufet
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自助餐
roman: zìzhùcān
lang: Chuvash
word: фуршет
roman: furš̬et
lang: Czech
word: švédský stůl
lang: Esperanto
word: bufedo
lang: Estonian
word: rootsi laud
lang: Finnish
word: noutopöytä
lang: Finnish
word: seisova pöytä
lang: Finnish
word: buffetti
lang: German
word: Buffet
lang: Hebrew
word: מִזְנוֹן
roman: miznón
lang: Hebrew
word: בּוּפֶה
roman: bufé
lang: Indonesian
word: bufet
lang: Indonesian
word: prasmanan
lang: Japanese
word: 食べ放題
roman: tabehōdai
lang: Japanese
word: バイキング
roman: baikingu
lang: Kazakh
word: фуршет
roman: furşet
lang: Lao
word: ບຸບເຟ່
roman: bup fē
lang: Lithuanian
word: furšetas
lang: Macedonian
word: шведска маса
roman: švedska masa
lang: Malay
word: bufet
lang: Polish
word: szwedzki stół
lang: Polish
word: bufet szwedzki
lang: Polish
word: bufet
lang: Portuguese
word: bufê
lang: Russian
word: буфе́т
roman: bufét
lang: Russian
word: фурше́т
roman: furšét
lang: Russian
word: шве́дский стол
roman: švédskij stol
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шве̏дскӣ сто̑л
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шве̏дскӣ сто̑
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: švȅdskī stȏl
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: švȅdskī stȏ
lang: Slovak
word: švédsky stôl
lang: Spanish
word: bufé
lang: Spanish
word: bufet
lang: Spanish
word: ambigú
lang: Spanish
word: comida
lang: Spanish
word: servicio de comida
lang: Swedish
word: buffé
lang: Tagalog
word: tintimpye
lang: Tagalog
word: sariling-kuha
lang: Tagalog
word: sariling-silbi
lang: Thai
word: บุฟเฟต์
roman: búp-fêe
lang: Ukrainian
word: фурше́т
roman: furšét
lang: Ukrainian
word: шве́дський стіл
roman: švédsʹkyj stil
lang: Vietnamese
word: búp phê
lang: Vietnamese
word: buffet