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buffhood

noun

Etymology

From buff + -hood.

  1. derived from *bʰeyH-✻ — “to fear, to be afraid”
  2. inherited from *bubjaną✻
  3. inherited from byffan — “to mumble, mutter”
  4. inherited from buffen — “to stutter, stammer”
  5. suffixed as buffhood — “buff + hood”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).

    • Well beyond buffhood is the incumbent partisan of astronomy's cause at the Kodak Research Laboratories.
    • My auto buffhood dates from that moment. For the rest of the week I hung around the fringes of the race crowd like kids used to around Babe Ruth.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA