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in the buff

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Etymology

From buff (“bare skin”, literally “brownish yellow”), an allusion to the color of tanned light skin.

Definitions

  1. Nude.

    • She was in the buff on the beach.
    • The streaker ran across the playing field in the buff.
    • Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in the buff. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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