buffet

Meaning

Noun

1. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
2. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
3. A small low stool; a hassock.

Verb

1. To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
2. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
3. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
4. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
5. To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

Synonyms

slap

cuff

counter

strike

bar

hit

batter

box

📦

beat

bang

smite

knock

sideboard

push one’s way

squeeze through

squeeze into

smorgasbord

snack bar

snack counter

elbow one’s way

shoulder one’s way

cupboard

knock about

ram

🐏

refreshment room

buff

bump

force one’s way

squeeze between

overcome

poke

pommel

pound

💷

puff

pulsate

pulse

punch

👊

push

rap

scuffle

shake

shove

shroud

slat

smack

spat

struggle

surmount

swat

tea trolley

thrash

throb

thud

thump

work

fight against

lunch room

wrestle with

attack

👊

all-you-can-eat

stand-up meal

luncheonette

strike with the fist

make a bayonet charge

tussle with

beaufet

shove one’s way

self-service meal

bass

belabour

biff

bunt

butt

cabinet

🗄️

calculating

charge

clack

clobber

clout

cudgel

devastate

din

dresser

drub

drum

🥁

fillip

fist

✊

fisticuff

forge

free fight

hammer

🔨

headbutt

impinge

larrup

lunchroom

maul

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʊ.feɪ/

Etymology

table
Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.