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Buff

Buff Meaning & Definition
Buff Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Buff?

[n] an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
[n] a medium to dark tan color
[n] bare skin; "swimming in the buff"
[n] an ardent follower
[n] a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen
[adj] of the color of buff leather
[v] polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"
[v] strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Buff: afficionado | buffer | buffet | burnish | caramel | caramel brown | chromatic | devotee | fan | flush | furbish | lover | raw sienna | yellowish brown

Related Terms | Find terms related to Buff: abettor | adherent | admirer | advocate | aficionado | amateur | angel | apologist | appendage | applauder | appreciator | attendant | attender | audience | aureate | auric | authority | backer | bareness | beige | birthday suit | booster | buff-yellow | bug | burnish | canary | canary-yellow | cavaliere servente | champion | citron | citron-yellow | claqueur | coat | collector | commender | connoisseur | courtier | crank | cream | creamy | critic | cuticle | dangler | decollete | defender | dependence | dependent | dermis | devotee | dilettante | disciple | dress | ecdysiast | ecru | encomiast | encourager | endorser | energumen | enthusiast | eulogist | eulogizer | expert | exponent | extoller | fallow | fan | fanatic | fanatico | fancier | favorer | fell | finish | flaxen | fleece | flesh | flunky | follower | following | freak | frequenter | friend at court | fur | furbish | furring | gilded | gilt | glance | glaze | gloss | gold | gold-colored | golden | groupie | gymnosophist | gymnosophy | habitue | hanger-on | haunter | henchman | hide | homme de cour | hound | idolater | idolizer | imitation fur | imitation leather | infatuate | integument | jacket | lauder | leather | leather paper | Leatherette | leathern | Leatheroid | leathery | lemon | lemon-yellow | lover | lunatic fringe | luster | luteolous | lutescent | Maecenas | mainstay | maintainer | monomaniac | nakedness | naturism | naturist | not a stitch | nudism | nudist | nudity | nut | ocherish | ocherous | ochery | ochreous | ochroid | ochrous | ochry | or | outer layer | outer skin | panegyrist | paranymph | parasite | partisan | patron | pelt | peltry | plugger | polish | praiser | primrose | primrose-colored | primrose-yellow | promoter | protagonist | public | puffer | pundit | pursuer | pursuivant | rawhide | reliance | rind | rooter | rub | rub up | saffron | saffron-colored | saffron-yellow | sallow | sand | sandblast | sand-colored | sandpaper | sandy | satellite | savant | scholar | scour | second | seconder | sectary | shadow | sheath | shine | sider | skin | skins | sleek | slick | slick down | smooth | specialist | spectator | sponsor | stalwart | standby | state of nature | stooge | straw | straw-colored | stripper | stripteaser | successor | support | supporter | sustainer | sympathizer | tagtail | tail | technical expert | technician | tegument | the altogether | the nude | the raw | theatergoer | toplessness | tout | touter | trainbearer | upholder | vair | varnish | visitor | votary | ward heeler | wax | well-wisher | worshiper | xanthic | xanthous | yellow | yellowish | zealot

See Also | aficionado | amorist | bacchanal | bacchant | brown | brownness | cutis | follower | followers | following | groupie | hit | implement | leather | polish | shine | skin | smooth | smoothen | snuff-color | snuff-colour | tegument

Buff In Webster's Dictionary

\Buff\ (b[u^]f), n. [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 of 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.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See {Buffy coat}, under {Buffy}, a. 5. (Mech.) 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. To polish with a buff. See {Buff}, n., 5.
\Buff\, v. t. [OF. bufer to cuff, buffet. See {Buffet} a blow.] To strike. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
\Buff\, n. [See {Buffet}.] 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. [Of uncertain etymol.] Firm; sturdy. And for the good old cause stood buff, 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff. --Hudibras.

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