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Word entry · 4 letters

buff

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"Enthusiast or polish"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /bʌf/Part of speech adjective, verb, nounSorted bffuStarts with BEnds with F1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2U3F4F

Definitions

  1. of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • […]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]
  • 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203, […] a Visage rough, Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.
  • His face changed from tan to buff.

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