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BuffEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From the colour of their facings.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗buffEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Ancient Greek [Term?]? Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos)bor. Latin būbalusder. Late Latin bufalusder. Italian bufaloder. Old French bufle Middle French buffleder. English buffe English buff From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗buffEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗buffEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English buffen (“to stutter, stammer”), from Old English byffan (“to mumble, mutter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bubjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to fear, to be afraid”). More at bive (“tremble, shake”) and bever.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗buffEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Clipping of buffalo.
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1908- BuffEnglish · e-37683-3595
Buff, buf, n. a pliant and uncracking leather used for soldiers' belts and other military purposes, made out of salted and dried South American light ox and cow hides: a military coat: the colour of buff: a light yellow:
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Buff, buf, n. (obs.) a buffet, blow, or stroke.—v.t. to strike. [O. Fr. buffe, a blow.]
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