buff

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
2. (countable, uncountable) A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
3. (countable, uncountable) A brownish yellow colour.
4. (countable, uncountable) A military coat made of buff leather.
5. (countable, informal, uncountable) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
6. (countable, uncountable) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
7. (countable, uncountable) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
8. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) The bare skin.
9. (countable, uncountable) The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
10. (countable, uncountable) Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.

Adj

1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
2. (colloquial) Unusually muscular.
3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) Physically attractive.

Verb

1. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
2. To make a character or an item stronger.
3. To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
4. (slang) To remove graffiti, particularly by someone who is not a graffiti writer.

Verb

To strike.

Verb

To stammer, stutter

Opposite of

debuff, nerf

Synonyms

burnish

polish

🇵🇱

enthusiast

furbish

shine

buffer

lover

❤️

fan

devotee

yellowish

brush

fallow

smoothen

buffet

buff-coloured

rub

caramel brown

raw sienna

caramel

scrub

yellowish brown

hoof

in the buff

iron

knock about

lather

light yellow

naked

nakedness

nankeen

nudity

pale yellow

raw

scourge

smooth

straw coloured

switch

whip

straw colored

yellowish-brown

nankin

mother-naked

buff statement

pale-yellow

buff-colored

buffing wheel

rag wheel

polishing wheel

abrade

glaze-wheel

Translations

polir

🇵🇱

Fan

mordu

πόρνη

verputzen

chamois

putzen

abputzen

nackt

polieren

polir

abrauen

βουβαλοτόμαρο

φαιοκίτρινο

schwabbeln

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌf/

Etymology

From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).