buff
noun
[ bʌf ]
• a yellowish-beige colour.
• "a buff envelope"
• a stout dull yellow leather with a velvety surface.
• a stick, wheel, or pad used for polishing.
buff
verb
• polish (something).
• "he buffed the glass until it gleamed"
• make (an element in a role-playing or video game) more powerful.
• "there are cards that'll buff your troops"
buff
adjective
• (of a person or their body) in good physical shape with well-developed muscles.
• "the driver was a buff blond named March"
Origin:
mid 16th century: probably from French buffle, from Italian bufalo, from late Latin bufalus (see buffalo). The original sense in English was ‘buffalo’, later ‘oxhide’ or ‘colour of oxhide’.
buff
noun
• a person who is enthusiastically interested in and very knowledgeable about a particular subject.
• "a computer buff"
Similar:
enthusiast,
fan,
fanatic,
devotee,
addict,
lover,
admirer,
expert,
connoisseur,
aficionado,
authority,
pundit,
cognoscente,
one of the cognoscenti,
savant,
freak,
nut,
fiend,
maniac,
ham,
ninja,
maven,
geek,
nerd,
fundi,
Origin:
early 20th century: from buff1, originally applied to enthusiastic fire-watchers, because of the buff uniforms formerly worn by New York volunteer firemen.
in the buff
• naked.
• "people generally don't go swimming in the buff in public places"
Similar:
naked,
bare,
nude,
in the nude,
stark naked,
with nothing on,
stripped,
unclothed,
undressed,
uncovered,
in a state of nature,
disrobed,
unclad,
undraped,
exposed,
au naturel,
without a stitch on,
in one's birthday suit,
in the raw,
in the altogether,
in the nuddy,
mother naked,
starkers,
in the scud,
scuddy,
bare-assed,
buck naked,
bollocky,
bollock-naked,
