The Meaning of buff

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
• (n.) A military coat, made of buff leather.
• (n.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
• (a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
• (a.) The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
• (a.) Made of buff leather.
• (a.) Of the color of buff.
• (v. t.) To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
• (v. t.) To strike.
• (n.) A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase \"Blindman's buff.\"
• (a.) Firm; sturdy.

Synonyms

fan , devotee , lover , yellowish brown , raw sienna , caramel , caramel brown , buffer , buffet , burnish , furbish

Homophones

buffe

Rhymes

acuff , bluff , bruff , chuff , cluff , cuff , cuffe , duff , dyestuff , earmuff , enough , fisticuff , fluff , foodstuff , gruff , guff , handcuff , hough , huff , leboeuf , lebouef , luff , macduff , mcduff , mcgeough , mcgough , muff , overstuff , pluff , puff , rebuff , rough , ruf , ruff , schuff , scottsbluff , scruff , scuff , shuff , slough , sluff , snuff , stough , stuff , tough , tuff