Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BUFF

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Definitions of BUFF

1. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
2. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
3. A brownish yellow colour.
4. A military coat made of buff leather.
5. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
6. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
7. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
8. To strike.
9. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
10. (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutter
11. (uncommon) Alternative form of buffe ("face armor").
12. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
13. (video games, RPG) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
14. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
15. (colloquial) The bare skin.
16. (video games, RPG) To make a character or an item stronger.
17. (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
18. (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
19. (slang, US, Air Force) Acronym of big ugly fat fellow (or fucker); US Airforce nickname for the B-52 bomber.
20. (UK, slang) A member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.
21. A surname.
22. (UK, military, mostly in plural) A member of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
23. (numismatic slang) Clipping of Buffalo nickel.
24. (originally, bodybuilding, colloquial) Unusually muscular.
25. (MLEslang) Physically attractive.
26. (graffiti slang) To remove graffiti, particularly by someone who is not a graffiti writer.
27. (obsolete) A strike; a blow.

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Examples of Using BUFF in a Sentence

• It has a tawny to creamy white or pale buff fur that is marked with evenly spaced, solid black spots.
• The breeding male has the forehead and crown white or nearly white, the mantle buff, and the wings blacker than those of the northern wheatear.
• They are sexually dimorphic; males have short, red-brown fur, fading to pale buff below and on the limbs, while females are smaller than males and are blue-grey with a brown tinge and pale grey below, although arid zone females are coloured more like males.
• They lay three or four eggs of a dark greenish or brownish buff color, boldly marked with brown and black.
• The nominate subspecies is similar to the Siberian chiffchaff, but with a finer darker bill, browner upperparts and buff flanks; its song is almost identical to the common chiffchaff, but the call is a weak psew.
• Juveniles are similar to winter adults but browner with buff fringes to the wing-coverts and scapulars and a grey-brown tip to the tail.
• The willow tit is distinguished from the marsh tit by a sooty brown instead of a glossy blue black cap; the general colour is otherwise similar, though the under parts are more buff and the flanks distinctly more rufous; the pale buff edgings to the secondaries form a light patch on the closed wing.
• The head and nape have a buff tinge that is more prominent in breeding season, and the wings are edged with dark brown-black feathers.
• The upper parts are dark, sooty brown-edged buff on the wing coverts, and streaked buff on the mantle and nape.
• Next door to the Wileman Building is Wollaston Lodge, a symmetrical early-20th-century building in buff brick, designed by Edward Schroeder Prior, that provides further student accommodation.
• Daytime formal wear and semi-formal wear commonly comprises a contrastingly coloured waistcoat, such as in buff or dove gray, still seen in morning dress and black lounge suit.
• Sexes are similar, but young soras lack the black facial markings and have a whitish face and buff breast.
• Immature birds are generally similar in appearance to the adults, but the blue-grey in the plumage is replaced by buff.
• He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated.
• The underparts are pale buff and the wing has a pinkish buff oval shaped panel which contrasts with the otherwise black wings and is formed by the inner wing coverts.
• It has streaked greyish-brown upperparts and buff underparts, and is similar in appearance to other European pipits.
• The species is heavily streaked brown above, with whitish mantle stripes, and with black markings on a white belly and buff breast below.
• The nest is a neat cup, built low in brambles or scrub, and the clutch is typically 4–6 mainly buff eggs, which hatch in about 11 days.
• Young birds are buffy grey-brown above, pale buff below, and have very little barring, with few obvious distinctive features; they can easily be confused with garden warblers, differing in the slight barring on the tail coverts and the pale fringes on the wing feathers, and their slightly larger size.
• The light morph is more like a juvenile Eurasian hobby, but has buff underparts, and also shows the contrast between the black underwing coverts and paler base to the flight feathers.

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