Definitions for Buff

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Spelling: [buhf]

IPA: /bʌf/

Buff is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in Buff (bffu).

Definitions for Buff

noun

1. a soft, thick, light-yellow leather with a napped surface, originally made from buffalo skin but later also from other skins, used for making belts, pouches, etc.
2. a brownish-yellow color; tan.
3. a buff stick or buff wheel.
4. a devotee or well-informed student of some activity or subject:
5. Informal. the bare skin:
6. Also called buffcoat. a thick, short coat of buffalo leather, worn especially by English soldiers and American colonists in the 17th century.
7. Informal. a buffalo.
8. Chiefly British Dialect. a blow; slap.
9. buffe.
10. plate armor for the lower part of the face and the throat, used with a burgonet.

adjective

1. having the color of buff.
2. made of buff leather.
3. Slang. physically attractive; muscular.

verb (used with object)

1. to clean or polish (metal) or give a grainless finish of high luster to (plated surfaces) with or as if with a buff stick or buff wheel.
2. to polish or shine, especially with a buffer:
3. to dye or stain in a buff color.
4. to reduce or deaden the force of; act as a buffer.

Origin of Buff

1545-55; 1900-05 for def 4; earlier buffe wild ox, back formation from buffle Middle French Late Latin būfalus; see buffalo; (def 4) originally a person enthusiast

Examples for Buff

The colour was buff, and there were seams of coal and lignite in places.

Manchester knew that you were a World War II buff, and that you were deeply interested in Churchill long before you met him.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Then Ziegler tosses the buff LaBeouf around like a rag doll.

Mary said at last, and he opened the buff envelope and took out the form.

The lacquer cures for 72 hours, and then is sanded by hand to buff out any imperfections.

Before William entered the pool, Charles joked, "I know my eldest will now demonstrate his buff credentials".

Anyone who wanted to see Shia LaBeouf without the buff is out of luck.

That's what I call blindman's-buff on a new principle, and no mistake!

Puff——muff——buff——I say, Berta, how would Muff do for yours?