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Definitions for Buff

[1] a soft, thick, light-yellow leather with a napped surface, originally made from buffalo skin but later also from other skins, used for making belts, pouches, etc.
[2] a brownish-yellow color; tan.
[3] a buff stick or buff wheel.
[4] a devotee or well-informed student of some activity or subject: Civil War buffs avidly read the new biography of Grant.
[5] Informal . the bare skin: in the buff.
[6] Also called buffcoat. a thick, short coat of buffalo leather, worn especially by English soldiers and American colonists in the 17th century.
[7] Informal . a buffalo.
[8] having the color of buff.
[9] made of buff leather.
[10] Slang . physically attractive; muscular.
[11] to clean or polish (metal) or give a grainless finish of high luster to (plated surfaces) with or as if with a buff stick or buff wheel.
[12] to polish or shine, especially with a buffer: to buff shoes.
[13] to dye or stain in a buff color.
[14] to reduce or deaden the force of; act as a buffer.
[15] Chiefly British Dialect . a blow; slap.
[16] buffe.
[17] plate armor for the lower part of the face and the throat, used with a burgonet.
[18] a soft thick flexible undyed leather made chiefly from the skins of buffalo, oxen, and elk (as modifier ) a buff coat
[19] a dull yellow or yellowish-brown colour (as adjective ) buff paint
[20] Also called: buffer a cloth or pad of material used for polishing an object a flexible disc or wheel impregnated with a fine abrasive for polishing metals, etc, with a power tool
[21] informal one's bare skin (esp in the phrase in the buff )
[22] to clean or polish (a metal, floor, shoes, etc) with a buff
[23] to remove the grain surface of (a leather)
[24] (tr) to deaden the force of
[25] archaic a blow or buffet (now only in the phrase blind man's buff )
[26] informal an expert on or devotee of a given subject a cheese buff

Words related to Buff

devotee, connoisseur, freak, expert, aficionado, lover, fan, addict, admirer, fiend, lemon, straw, nude, ecru, bare, tan, blonde, canary, ochre, votary

Words nearby Buff

buenos aires, buenos días, buerger's disease, buf, bufadienolide, buff, buff stick, buff top, buff wheel, buff-tip moth, buffa

Origin of Buff

e1590–1600; < Middle French < Italian buffa, probably special use of buffa puff of breath, hard breath; see buffoon

Other words from Buff

buff·a·bil·i·ty , noun
buff·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Buff

C20: originally US: an enthusiastic fire watcher, from the buff-coloured uniforms worn by volunteer firemen in New York City

Synonyms for Buff

bare, blonde, canary, ecru, lemon, nude, ochre, straw, tan, light brown, tawny, yellow-brown, yellowish