[ UK /bˈʌf/ ]
[ US /ˈbəf/ ]
VERB
  1. polish and make shiny
    buff my shoes
    buff the wooden floors
  2. strike, beat repeatedly
    The wind buffeted him
NOUN
  1. a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen
  2. a medium to dark tan color
  3. bare skin
    swimming in the buff means to swim naked
  4. an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
  5. an ardent follower and admirer
ADJECTIVE
  1. of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather
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How To Use buff In A Sentence

  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • The solution obtained by dissolving the absorbent albuminoid in the buffer advantageously contains 6% by weight of this albuminoid.
  • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Even without captain Mats Sundin, the Toronto Maple Leafs are still alive in the playoff chase. USATODAY.com
  • The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
  • She smoothed paste wax on the old red linoleum and buffed it by hand.
  • The body was buffeted about in the waves.
  • We came across a herd of Cape buffalo grazing in a field, their eyes glassy when hit by the spotlight. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • An important story, the CD is ideal for history buffs, or anyone interested in the Sally Hemings-Thomas Jefferson story.
  • Like a lacertine Vicar of Bray, he varies incontinently from buff to blue, and from blue back to orange again, under stress of circumstances. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
  • Brick with blurred colors or flecks of color in earthy tones of red, brown, black and buff appear completely at home in a rustic setting.
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